arch. [f. BABE + -ISH.]
1. Of or befitting a babe; infantile, baby-like.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 593/2. Their deedes … verye babishe and veniall.
c. 1670. Bunyan, Conf. Faith, Wks. 72. The actors herein have been counted babish Christians.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, II. 459. Her babish darts From tender hand she flung.
2. contemptuously, Babyish, childish, silly.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M., 1173/1. You babishe infantes and noddies.
1653. S. Fisher, Baby Bapt., To Rdr. 2. Empty Answers, absolute Absurdities, Babish Baflings.
1775. Ash, Babish, childish, trifling.
