wean someone on something
wean
noun[ C ]
Scottish & Northern Irish Englishinformaluk /weɪn/ us /weɪn/
a child: 小孩;儿童
"There is no point wasting money on food that the weans just won't eat," she said.
Thousands of Glasgow weans can also take free advantage of the summer holiday programme with their Kidz card.
Note reports that the two most popular names parents are currently giving their weans are Jack for a boy and Chloe for a girl.
Ma, pa and the weans tucking into their meat and two veg is a fast-fading reality.
Now that almost all have their weans grown up, they can afford holidays abroad.
He's always happy to take the wean to the park.

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babe in arms
baby
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new addition
nipper
only child
tantrum
teethe
tiddler
tike
toddler

wean | American Dictionary

wean
verb[ T ]
us/win/
to cause a baby or young animal to stop feeding on its mother’s milk and to eat other foods:
She started to wean her baby at six months.

Examples of wean

wean
Regurgitation of the left atrioventricular valve was evaluated only after the patient had been weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass and was hemodynamically stable.
In their work the visitors aimed to prevent newly weaned infants from being fed with a dangerous bottle when they were at their most vulnerable.
Recurrent atelectasis persisted despite bronchial suctioning, and repeated attempts of weaning from the ventilator were unsuccessful.
The disease mostly caused low mortality, occurring as sporadic episodes of sudden death of a few (<10) suckling or weaned piglets.
Lambs were kept in two separate fields prior to weaning each year.
When nursed by a control-fed dam, the pancreatic weight was comparable with controls by weaning.
In all these patients, embolization resulted in prompt clinical improvement, enabling them to be weaned from the ventilator.
After weaning at about 16 weeks of age, all lambs were moved to one field so as to minimize variation in exposure to infective larvae.
We experienced no trouble in inserting the cannula while, in addition, no aortic obstruction was observed when weaning any of the patients from bypass.
It is a roadblock in the path of integrating the social and natural sciences, and weaning sociology and anthropology from its social constructivist traditions.
At follow-up (11-90 months, median 49), 7 patients have been weaned from therapy, but 3 (with atrial tachycardia) are still on beta-blockers or flecainide.
These values improved rapidly as dexamethasone was weaned.
His condition improved so that he was weaned from ventilation within next day.
We acknowledge that the process of weaning can be lengthy and highly variable and that our correction is only an approximation.
All were weaned from the second support but only three survived (38%).
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