WATER BABIES


Meaning of WATER BABIES in English

ˈWater ˌBabies, The BrE AmE

(1863) a book for children by Charles Kingsley about a young boy called Tom, who is a CHIMNEY-SWEEP (=someone who cleans chimneys) . Tom falls into a river and magically changes into a ‘water baby’, and he learns all about good and evil from the good and evil creatures under the water.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.