crybaby

• cry baby, cry-baby

From cry +‎ baby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/

crybaby (plural crybabies)

1. A baby who cries excessively.
2. (slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
   • 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Then he used the occasion to humiliate the provost, calling her an example of the censorious crybabies whom he had come to relieve of their responsibility.

3. (slang) Someone who takes offense or excessively complains when things aren't going well.
   • 1964, Harry S. Truman, 4:20 from the start, in MP2002-359 Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Stop the War‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     […] Now there are a lot of crybabies around who are talking about what ought to have done and the bomb ought to have had a demonstration in Japan before you killed all those people. […] I don't care what the crybabies say now because they didn't have to make the decision.

• crybabyish
• crybully
• cry like a baby

• bellyacher
• complainer
• sniveler
• whiner
• whinger

crybaby (third-person singular simple present crybabies, present participle crybabying, simple past and past participle crybabied)

1. (intransitive) to act like a crybaby.
   • 2023 October 27, John Nolte, “Nolte: 'Hunger Games' Actress Rachel Zeigler Plays the Victim over 'Snow White' Backlash”, in Breitbart‎:

     “I have learned the hard way,” she crybabied this week, “that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness.”