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here comes the plane en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. Said to encourage young children to open their mouths during spoon-feeding.

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here comes the aeroplane alternative lexicographic
here comes the airplane alternative lexicographic

here comes the plane en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A game played while spoon-feeding children to encourage them to eat.
    • 'Don't tell me you want to play Here Comes the Aeroplane.' I raise the spoon to make it fly: the mixture eddies and swirls in the air before him. 2019 October 24, Giuseppe Caputo, An Orphan World, Charco Press, →ISBN:
    • I also realized he could get me to do lots of things, most of them humiliating, to get him to eat: beg, plead, threaten, bribe, play "here comes the airplane." 2012 August 1, Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Bull Publishing Company, →ISBN:
    • Play "here comes the airplane" to induce them to open up and eat more 2014 January 18, Marian Edelman Borden, Ellen Bowers, Vincent Iannelli, The Only Baby Book You'll Ever Need: A Parent's Guide to Everything!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 160:
    • She tried to play a game of "Here comes the airplane!" It worked once or twice , but that was all . 1994, Phyllis Lieber, Gloria S. Murphy, Annette Merkur Schwartz, Grown-up Children, Grown-up Parents: Opening the Door to Healthy Relationships Between Parents and Adult Children, Carol Publishing Corporation, →ISBN:

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here comes the airplane alternative lexicographic
here comes the aeroplane alternative lexicographic