rockabye
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To rock soothingly.
Example Sentences
- "“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."
- "It was a pleasant day, the boat rockabyed in the slight chop and by late afternoon I was more nearly asleep than awake."
- "From the lowliest panhandler on the street to the worthiest recipient of today’s social security benefits we are being “spoiled rotten” and rockabyed to sleep to the strains of that haunting lullaby known as the Beggar-American Rhapsody “Gimme gimme, gimme gimme gimme.”"
- "And lying down that night why should I hear the Brownsville trains that long had rockabyed me?"
- "Sprung rubber alarm clock: it bounced apart All over him: boingg: it loves him to death. The rubber loops contort, their moil and clench Rockabyeing him out of this world."
- "A contact lens may become scratched, chipped, discolored, contaminated, coated, warped, or desiccated. Poorly fit, it feels like grit or rockabyes out of the eyes."
Etymology
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”)).