A cowardly or fearful person, especially one who is easily frightened; an archaic or dialect term for a timid individual.
Compound of 'fear' and 'babe,' using 'babe' in the archaic sense of a foolish or simple person. This construction is primarily dialectal and appears in regional British English texts.
This insult is charmingly direct—pairing fear with babish simplicity—and its utter absence from modern language shows how insult vocabulary constantly evolves; we've swapped 'fearbabe' for terms that would've been unthinkable to Victorian speakers.
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