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間投詞

hushaby

1. (archaic) hush and be still. A lull to sleep.
   • 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 5:

     Hush-a-by, baby, upon the tree-top; / When the wind blows the cradle will rock; / When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; / Down will come cradle and baby and all.

   • 1892. Eugene Field. Hushaby Sweet my Own. In With Trumpet and Drum. page 106 [1]:

     The night is fair, and the waves are still,

     And the wind is singing to you and to me

     In this lowly home beside the sea —

     Hushaby, sweet my own!

名詞

hushaby (複数形 hushabies)

1. A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep.
   • 1832, Thomas Skinner, Excursions in India:

     The moaning of their voices seemed to me to be like what is understood in Scotland by a "sugh," and might very well have passed for a hushaby, when the nurse had nearly succeeded in murmuring herself to sleep, as well as her infant.

動詞

hushaby (三人称単数 現在形 hushabies, 現在分詞 hushabying, 過去形および過去分詞形 hushabied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To lull to sleep by saying "hushaby".

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