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badbye en · INTJ

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Etymology

From bad + bye, by analogy with goodbye, reanalyzed as good + bye.

Meanings

1. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions.
   • Goodbye. / Then I don’t know what’s so good about it. / Then badbye or just bye. / Yes, that’s probably just a goodbye. / Bye, then? / I wish we didn’t have to say bye. / We didn’t say bye. / We said “badbye” and “just bye” and “then bye.” 2010, Stephen Dixon, What Is All This?: Uncollected Stories, Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 534:
   • The distant thump of the front door. Gone. She didn’t even go to the window to watch him walk away. / And I cannot let you in. / What kind of a woman falls for a grieving man? / Badbye. 2019, Ray Robinson, The Mating Habits of Stags, Lightning Books, →ISBN:
2. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions. ▸ Used to express sadness at the departure of a friend or loved one.
3. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions. ▸ Used to dismiss someone whom the speaker is angry with, such that the speaker may be happy to see them leave.
   • Once, when she was little, she was angry at Jason because he was going away and she refused to say goodbye to him. Instead she ran to a window and shouted after him, “Badbye, Daddy, badbye!” 1976, Violet Weingarten, Half a Marriage, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 110:

Synonyms

good riddance

badbye en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From bad + bye, by analogy with goodbye, reanalyzed as good + bye.

Meanings

1. The acknowledgement of a departure involving such negative emotions.
   • Her last words to him: Don’t hurt anyone else. But did she mean: Don’t hurt me. / That wasn’t a goodbye. It was a badbye. 2019, Ray Robinson, The Mating Habits of Stags, Lightning Books, →ISBN:
   • She walked to the railing where airport people, who waited to wave goodbyes (and even badbyes) to their loved (and hated) ones, leaned. 2009, Onyeka Nwelue, The Abyssinian Boy, DADA Books, →ISBN, page 112:
   • I remember saying goodbye to all of my friends. But, I was telling lies, it wasn’t a goodbye at all, it was a badbye. 2017, Antoon A. Leenaars, The Psychological Autopsy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 184:

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