to rockabye
- verb
- /ˈrɑːkəˌbaɪ/
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mecer
- Every night, I rockabye my baby in the gentle light of her night lamp.
To help settle your baby, hold their head and bum and rock and sway.
- To help settle your baby, hold their head and bum and rock and sway.
- You may not know that Link can perform around the world and rocking the baby on a yo-yo.
- So staying like rock me to sleep all night long, that was cool.
Examples
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He rockabyed the infant in his arms until she peacefully drifted off to sleep.
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The mother softly rockabyed her child while singing a sweet lullaby.
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To help settle your baby, hold their head and bum and rock and sway.
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The boys are just having a little cuddle watching Sing Mummy, rocking our baby girl in the pink blanket to sleep.
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She's been moving around a lot this morning and now she's about to be hopefully rocked to sleep by all The Walking back.
Synonyms
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To move gently back and forth to comfort or calm
How Gently
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rockabye as a verb also comes from the nursery rhyme 'rock-a-bye baby', joining rock meaning 'to move gently' with the lullaby sound -bye, so it literally means to rock someone gently until they fall asleep.