bye-bye
[ interjection bahy-bahy; noun, adverb bahy-bahy ]
/ interjection ˈbaɪˈbaɪ; noun, adverb ˈbaɪˌbaɪ /
interjection
Informal.
goodbye.
noun
Baby Talk.
sleep.
Idioms for 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 orig. nursery phrase used to lull a child to sleep, later construed as reduplicative form of
bye, short for
goodbye
Words nearby bye-bye
byde,
bydgoszcz,
bye,
bye-,
bye-blow,
bye-bye,
bye-byes,
byelaw,
byelgorod-dnestrovski,
byelorussia,
byelorussian
Example sentences from the Web for bye-byes
Upstairs, the little girl devoted a few minutes to instructing her dolly in the art of going off nicely to bye-byes.
Princess Mary's Gift Book |Various
British Dictionary definitions for bye-byes
bye-byes
noun
(functioning as singular) an informal word, used esp to children, for sleep go to bye-byes