1837. Poughkeepsie Jrnl., 29 March, 2/1. He commences by repeating a variety of well invented tragic and cry-baby stories.
1883. Florence H. Birney, in Our Little Ones, 196. Tom called him a cry-baby, because his eyes were always full of tears.
1891. Sat. Rev., 21 Feb., 230/1.
| And although you may tell me, dear mother, perhaps, | |
| That it’s not for a boy to condemn, | |
| I declare, all the same, that they’re cry-baby chaps, | |
| And I don’t think I’d like to be them. |
