[f. BABY sb. + -SHIP.] a. = BABYHOOD. b. The personality of a baby.
1617. in Minsheu.
1648. Herrick, Hesper. (1844), II. 48. Is it a trespass, if we three Should wend along his babyship to see?
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 193. Babyship or Infancy.