Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Good-by: a childish form of farewell, sometimes used humorously by grown people.
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Examples
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I is wayvin by-by fur teh weekend now, u and MJ has a grate vissit!
Invisible - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Haply he but now came forth of the tavern on some occasion of his own and his wine flew to his head,432 whereby he hath missed the place he was making for and strayed till he came to the gate of the city; and finding it shut lay him down and to by-by!
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"There, there, that will be very comfortable; by-by."
A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny
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You see I am very comfortably settled in my big by-by and I do not want to have any ink-stains.
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"Git into that nice li'l cot an 'go by-by," said the new papa genially.
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It's Fitzgerald's theory that Chester was killed by-by a relative who stood to inherit.
The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940
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Sally said, "Goin 'by-by!" and leaned forward from Grandma's knees to give her father a strangling hug around the neck.
Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935
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Well I believe I'll run in and read for just a second -- want to look at the last Vogue -- and then perhaps I'll go by-by.
Main Street 1920
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Tum now, Hanna, get washed and new ribbon to go by-by.
The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920
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When I turned around again they was just at the breakaway, so it must have been one of the by-by forever kind, such as you see at the dock on sailing day.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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