hushaby
Americaninterjection
interjection
noun
Etymology
Origin of hushaby
Example Sentences
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For the last decade, Cinemactress Joan Crawford has been hushaby lady to millions for whom dreams at prevailing box-office prices are the only escape from failure and mediocrity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very tender is the four-line Sicilian hushaby, in which the proud mother says— How beautiful my son is in his swaddling clothes; just think what he will be when he is big!
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Thou first, then following I, We will hush and hushaby.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Now hushaby, lammy, now hushaby, dear; Now hushaby, lammy, for mother is near.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
I believe a hiss is music to his ears and a curse is a hushaby, lullaby song.
From The Thunders of Silence by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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