Words similar to baby-talk

Example sentences for: baby-talk

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Medical practitioners born and bred in the United Kingdom are just as guilty as their patients of spreading these opaque synonyms, abetted in their case by a fondness for a special kind of baby-talk that is supposed to reassure the patient: We're just going to pop you into the operating theatre and have a little peep in your tummy.
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.