baa-lamb
IPA: bˈɑˈiɫˈæm
noun
- (childish) A lamb or sheep.
- Someone who is submissive, especially a husband or boyfriend.
Examples of "baa-lamb" in Sentences
- I couldn't have believed it of him, even with that silly little baa-lamb.
- You're a meek little baa-lamb, but you've got lots of stuff in you, old Wrennski.
- In clarion tones that made themselves heard above the din Emily Davis was advertising an auction of her animals, beginning with "one perfectly good baa-lamb."
- I don't pretend to be any baa-lamb, and maybe I'm a little cross-grained at breakfast sometimes, but the way they go on jab-jab-jabbering, I simply can't stand it.
- I dont pretend to be any baa-lamb, and maybe Im a little cross-grained at breakfast sometimes, but the way they go on jab-jab-jabbering, I simply cant stand it.
- I think I'm being a baa-lamb, and not springing any theories wilder than ` c-a-t spells cat, 'but when folks have gone, I re'lize I've been stepping on their pet religious corns.
- “Our little family of Hays, Lodges, Camerons and Roosevelts, has been absolutely devoted to each other, and as I was the one to be lost, I came in for most of the baa-lamb treatment,” he wrote to a friend.
- John privately informed his friend that any fellow of twelve -- and he must be that if he wasn't thirteen -- who would wear a white collar and velvet rig-up like that to school must be a baa-lamb, and ought to stay home and sit on his mother's knee.