Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to say good night to someone, especially to a child, who is going to bed.
- noun The act of going to bed or of putting a child to bed.
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- noun idiomatic, baby-talk, childish
Bedtime for a toddler,going to sleep ,going to bed .
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Examples
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Time for beddy-bye now, big boy, and someday, if you're very, very good, Santa Clause just might bring you a brain for Christmas.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Time for beddy-bye now, big boy, and someday, if you're very, very good, Santa Clause just might bring you a brain for Christmas.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Brendon, who has a teaching credential remember, assumed that the lights just going out in a windowless house, plunging them all into total darkness, was merely Big Brother's way of telling them it was time for beddy-bye.
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Red wine and candlelight would complete the illusion of a romantic anniversary dinner, and then, as she had come to call her plan, “beddy-bye.”
Anniversary Cruise 2010
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I am so glad to still be chained to the computer, yet finished with my blog post so I caught yours before beddy-bye.
Fresca, 7-Up Fresca 2010
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Brendon, who has a teaching credential remember, assumed that the lights just going out in a windowless house, plunging them all into total darkness, was merely Big Brother's way of telling them it was time for beddy-bye.
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I then inquire as to whether or not they need an agent of the government to clean their bottoms after relieving themselves albeit phrased less delicately, or give them a bottle and tuck them into their cribs for beddy-bye time.
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I plan on seeing it at 3:28AM when the younglings are in beddy-bye and I have had my eighth "Twilight Cocktail" Red Bull and Milk - yummers!
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – NEW MOON Sells the Most Advance Tickets in Fandango’s History – Collider.com 2009
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Someone give him his medicine and his hot toddy and send him off to beddy-bye.
McCain's Pushback On Timing Flub: The Surge Began Before The Surge 2009
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Yep, dat owtta du it juss perfektlii… thyme furr beddy-bye fur teh beri wet possum-mom…
De otherz asleep, now I can escape! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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