Question of the Day #925

Crybaby or just a highly sensitive person?

From the headline of this article at The Sydney Morning Herald.

  上記の文で、crybabyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "crybaby" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 泣き虫、ちょっとしたことでもすぐに泣く人◆特に子どもについて用いられる
2. いつも不満ばかり言っている人、愚痴をこぼす人

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

one who cries or complains easily or often

 

Examples

• “Don't be such a crybaby,” she told her little sister.
• But we certainly are not cry-babies, and we are not going to be cry-babies.
• What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech? — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• In general, we want to think people will respond to that, not calling someone a crybaby. - THE RIGHT, THE LEFT, AND ROMNEY'S JERKITUDE|MICHAEL TOMASKY|OCTOBER 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
• What a crybaby you must think me, she said presently, in a limp voice. - DOROTHY DIXON AND THE MYSTERY PLANE|DOROTHY WAYNE

   

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