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
Thou first, then following I, We will hush and hushaby.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Now hushaby, lammy, now hushaby, dear; Now hushaby, lammy, for mother is near.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Dear little hands, Dear little feet, Quiet at last; Closed are the eyes: Lullaby, hushaby baby!
From The Piper and the Reed by Robert W. Norwood
Compose thy dimpled hands to rest, And like a little birdling lie Secure within thy cozy nest Upon my loving mother breast, And slumber to my lullaby, So hushaby—O hushaby.
From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field
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