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English
Interjection
good-by
- Dated form of goodbye.
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Phœbe’s Good-by”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 235:“Good-by, then,” said Phœbe, frankly. “I do not mean to be angry a great while, and should be sorry to have you think so. There has Cousin Hepzibah been standing in the shadow of the door-way, this quarter of an hour past! She thinks I stay too long in the damp garden. So, good-night, and good-by!”
Noun
good-by (plural good-bys)
- Dated form of goodbye.
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “A Beginning and an End: March 31, 1968”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 431:Our daughter Lynda had been flying all night from California on the "Red Eye Special." She had just said good-by to her husband, Chuck, who was leaving for duty in Vietnam.
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