| 释义 |
hushaby, int., v., and a. dial.|ˈhʌʃəbaɪ|
[f. hush v.1 or int. + by in by-by, bye-bye1, child's name for ‘sleep’ or ‘bed’: cf. also lullaby, rockaby.]
A. int. (or imperative of vb.) Hush! and go to sleep; a word used in lulling a child.
1796Mother Goose's Melody 15 Hush-a-by baby On the tree top, When the wind blows The cradle will rock. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Hushie-baw-Babbie, the cradle-song to babes. 1864C. M. Yonge Trial I. 66 ‘It is one constant hush, hushaby’, he said; ‘it would make one sleep pleasantly’.
B. v. trans. To lull to sleep with ‘hushaby’. Also, to speak softly (nonce-use).
1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton ix. (1882) 23/2 Hushabying a babby as wouldn't be hushabied. 1934S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 85 ‘Too good of you to come’ she hushabied.
C. adj. ‘Tending to quiet or lull’ (Eclectic Rev. cited in Worcester 1846). |