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bye-bye
[ interjection bahy-bahy; noun, adverb bahy-bahy ]
/ interjection ˈbaɪˈbaɪ; noun, adverb ˈbaɪˌbaɪ /
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interjection
Informal. goodbye.
noun
Baby Talk. sleep.
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Idioms about bye-bye
- to leave; depart; go out.
- to go to sleep; go to bed.
go bye-bye, Baby Talk.
Origin of bye-bye
1700–10; apparently originally nursery phrase used to lull a child to sleep, later construed as reduplicative form of bye, short for goodbye
Words nearby bye-bye
by degrees, by design, Bydgoszcz, by dint of, bye, bye-bye, bye-byes, by-election, Byelgorod-Dnestrovski, Byelorussia, Byelorussian
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