"babygirl" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-babygirl.wav Forms: babygirls [plural], baby girl [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} babygirl (plural babygirls)
  1. (fandom slang) A male fictional character or celebrity of whom one is extremely fond, especially a "bad boy" type reinterpreted as adorable, quirky, or secretly soft-hearted. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-babygirl-en-noun-H5zlerOB Topics: lifestyle
  2. Alternative form of baby girl (“a friendly or intimate term of address for a woman”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: baby girl (extra: a friendly or intimate term of address for a woman) Categories (topical): Fictional characters
    Sense id: en-babygirl-en-noun-eqgJV3vO Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 40 60 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 66 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: babygirlification Related terms: Draco in Leather Pants (english: any morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans), poor little meow meow (english: endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character), woobie (english: morally-ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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