Meaning of rockabye | Babel Free

Definitions

A soothing rocking motion.

Examples

“All the lullabies of the world suggest undulatory movements or rockabyes in the tree tops.”

“This is what Eve was thinking as she listened to the dance music swinging like a rockabye hammock hung between the silky strands of[…]”

“Every forty-five minutes occurred A Laugh, selected sea-chanties were alternately mumbled and roared, and the saddest intermission orchestra I have ever heard fiddled jigs and reels to a rockabye tempo.”

“Carruthers’ sobs have a rockabye beat.”

“ROCKABYE HAMMOCK. Grown-ups aren’t the only ones who love the sunny laziness of a hammock, so this one has been designed for children between the ages of four and ten.”

“I have been a rockabye baby sloshed in the sludge of the sea and I have clung with a shell over me waiting a tide to bring me breakfast.”

“Then, in a rockabye vein, comes Catalina’s white two-piece suit of knit that resembles a baby’s blanket and is trimmed with pink crocheted scalloped edges and tassels wherever there is an edge to decorate.”

“Just lie still; just don’t cry; I’ll rock you with a rockabye.”

“Debbi will sit and talk for a while, then charge off to breast-feed the baby. Her office features a rockabye-baby device with a fringed top.”

“Linda is working her soft soft wet mouth gently against mine, letting me dream her tongue and meanwhile, below, she cups Mr. Genital in her hands and gives the triangle a firm squeeze, a rockabye side-to-side shake.”

“So the tree house itself could’ve been a celebration of Chad’s birth—the epitome of a rockabye-baby cradle in the tree top?”

“Seed has paired us on the MetroBabe Stroller audio job, designing an interface that works for both toddlers and parents. At the touch of a button, it has to be able to play back rockabyes, current hits packaged as instrumental lullabies for baby, or MetroBabe’s private info station, simply jam-packed with useful information to help guide new parents through the very special hell they’ve signed up for.”

“Trains and books and dolly with open eyes Creak and creak for Grandpa’s rockabyes”

“[…]; a Mommy’s arms to enfold with love for a rockabye time or a story;”

“The ear, our body’s innate artist, wields the hammer, tip[-]taps the anvil, turns, without trying, the monotonous slammings of water and sand into sweet rockabyes.”

“In the eaves, dove coos a rockabye song.”

“Being a rockabye-baby mom was never my thing.”

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