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beddy-bye; beddy byes; beddie-byes
noun
sleep or bed UK, 1906
A nursery term, used for effect elsewhere.- [I]t’s two o’clock in the afternoon by golly, and he, for one, is going to take his little chicks home to beddy-by. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 13, 1957
- Come on Milly, beddy byes. You’ve had a skinful tonight. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 97, 1959
- Mr. Cherry said he had a hard day’s driving to Spokane tomorrow to pruchase some varnish wholesale and he would have to go beddy-bye now. He said beddy-bye. We said goodnight to him[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 95, 1961
- Well, I better get my ass beddy-by. I’ll see you in the morning. — Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, p. 71, 1980
- And she’s wearing her Frederick’s of Hollywood silkies for beddy-bye. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 82, 1992
- We would normally leave the main meal of the pack until last thing in the day. It helped warm us up for beddie-byes. — Ken Lukowiak, A Soldier’s Song, p. 26, 1993
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