Babbitt
Pronunciation: /ˈbæbɪt/
The English word “Babbitt” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals.
Etymology
From the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
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