baby girlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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baby girl (plural baby girls)

1. A female baby.
2. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) (sometimes endearing, sometimes derogatory) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.
   • 2010, V. J. Gotastory, Year of the Crackmom:

     My beautiful sister Marveen. You are my babygirl. I didn't know what I had been missing until you appeared in my life.

   • 2010, Chunichi, The Return of a Gangster's Girl, page 26:

     "I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know."

   • 2011, Kristina Caraballo, Lileannas' Journey, page 103:

     “Hey I missed your call. What's up?” “Hey babygirl, I was calling to check on you duh. What you doin?”

3. (slang) The youngest daughter in a family.

   My baby girl got her driver's license on Monday!

4. (slang) A daughter.
   • 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”‎performed by Chappell Roan:

     I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee
     Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
     Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
     She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream

5. (fandom slang) Alternative spelling of babygirl (“male character or celebrity of whom one is extremely fond”)

等位語

• baby boy

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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.
   • 2022 October 11, Katelyn Sliwinski, “Is it weird to call Walter White ‘babygirl?’”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan:

     Is it wrong to drastically misinterpret the tone of this show [Breaking Bad] in favor of calling an elderly man “babygirl?”

   • 2022 December 1, Rachel Choi, “The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels”, in The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, page 4:

     Many predominantly female communities seem to be drawn to Ghost’s faceless and masked concept, low-toned voice, and general physique, deeming him their “babygirl” to express their fondness for him. From headcanoning him, kicking his legs, and blushing at a compliment to wearing cat ears, Ghost’s menacing persona is being accepted as a cute little quirk to the girlies.

   • 2023 May 10, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, “What does babygirl mean? And why does it refer to middle-aged men?”, in The Daily Dot:

     One popular TikTok argues that a babygirl should have two of three things: “Eyes, cries, and war crimes. They have beautiful eyes, they’ve cried onscreen, they’ve committed atrocities.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:baby girl.
2. Alternative form of baby girl (“a friendly or intimate term of address for a woman”).

派生語

• babygirlification

参考

• Draco in Leather Pants (any morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans)
• poor little meow meow (endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character)
• woobie (morally-ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos)