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hushaby en · INTJ

Etymology

Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic) hush and be still; a lull to sleep
    • Hush-a-by, baby, upon the tree-top; / When the wind blows the cradle will rock; / When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; / Down will come cradle and baby and all. 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 5:
    • The night is fair, and the waves are still, And the wind is singing to you and to me In this lowly home beside the sea — Hushaby, sweet my own! 1892. Eugene Field. Hushaby Sweet my Own. In With Trumpet and Drum. page 106 http://books.google.com/books?id=FNQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106&dq=hushaby&ei=W3AuR-2nAoKotgPstI28CQ

Forms

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hush-a-bye alternative lexicographic

hushaby en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).

Meanings

  1. A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep.
    • The moaning of their voices seemed to me to be like what is understood in Scotland by a "sugh," and might very well have passed for a hushaby, when the nurse had nearly succeeded in murmuring herself to sleep, as well as her infant. 1832, Thomas Skinner, Excursions in India:

Forms

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hush-a-bye alternative lexicographic
hushabies Number=Plur lexicographic

hushaby en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To lull to sleep by saying "hushaby".

Forms

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hush-a-bye alternative lexicographic
hushabies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hushabying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hushabied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hushabied Tense=Past lexicographic