crybaby

Etymology

From cry + baby.

noun

1. A baby who cries excessively.
2. (slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
   Then he used the occasion to humiliate the provost, calling her an example of the censorious crybabies whom he had come to relieve of their responsibility. 2023-02-10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic
3. (slang) Someone who takes offense or excessively complains when things aren't going well.
   […]Now there are a lot of crybabies around who are talking about what ought to have done and the bomb ought to have had a demonstration in Japan before you killed all those people. […] I don't care what the crybabies say now because they didn't have to make the decision. 1964, Harry S. Truman, 4:20 from the start, in MP2002-359 Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Stop the War, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162

verb

1. (intransitive) to act like a crybaby.