Usually means: Crying of a newborn baby.
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  4. vagitus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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▸ noun:  The crying of a newborn baby.

Similar:
crybaby, wrawling, squalling, quiritation, child-crowing, hyperphonation, blubbing, puling, upcry, bawling, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness

Phrases:
vagitus uterinus, more...

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Similar:
crybaby, wrawling, squalling, quiritation, child-crowing, hyperphonation, blubbing, puling, upcry, bawling, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness

Phrases:
vagitus uterinus, more...



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