rockabye

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soothing rocking motion.
    — All the lullabies of the world suggest undulatory movements or rockabyes in the tree tops.
动词 v.
  1. To rock soothingly. ambitransitive
    — “We have a Chopin player in the house,” he said. And with a tiny smile he rockabyed the opening phrase of the Ballade and turned his head to look straight at Katie.

词形变化

rockabyes present,singular,third-person rockabyeing participle,present rockabying participle,present rockabyed participle,past rockabyed past rockabyes plural

词源

词源 1
From the nursery rhyme Rock-a-bye Baby, previously recorded as "Hush-a-by(e) baby"; blend of rock + lullaby or rock + -abye (as in hush-a-bye, from -a- (connective interfix) + bye (“goodbye, bye-bye”)).
词源 2
From the nursery rhyme Rock-a-bye Baby, previously recorded as "Hush-a-by(e) baby"; blend of rock + lullaby or rock + -abye (as in hush-a-bye, from -a- (connective interfix) + bye (“goodbye, bye-bye”)).
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