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bye-byes

[interj. bahy-bahy; n., adv. bahy-bahy]

bye-bye

[interj. bahy-bahy; n., adv. bahy-bahy]
interjection
1.
Informal. good-bye.
noun
2.
Baby Talk. sleep.

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Bye-byes is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
3.
go bye-bye, Baby Talk.
a.
to leave; depart; go out.
b.
to go to sleep; go to bed.

Origin:
1700–10; apparently orig. nursery phrase used to lull a child to sleep, later construed as reduplicative form of by2, short for good-bye
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bye-byes
 
n
(functioning as singular) an informal word, used esp to children, for sleep : go to bye-byes

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