Interjection
Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions.
Usage- childish
- Colloquial
- Humorous
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Goodbye. / Then I don’t know what’s so good about it. / Then badbye or just bye. / Yes, that’s probably just a goodbye. / Bye, then? / I wish we didn’t have to say bye. / We didn’t say bye. / We said “badbye” and “just bye” and “then bye.”
The distant thump of the front door. Gone. She didn’t even go to the window to watch him walk away. / And I cannot let you in. / What kind of a woman falls for a grieving man? / Badbye.
Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions. Used to express sadness at the departure of a friend or loved one.
Usage- childish
- Colloquial
- Humorous
Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions. Used to dismiss someone whom the speaker is angry with, such that the speaker may be happy to see them leave.
Usage- childish
- Colloquial
- Humorous
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Once, when she was little, she was angry at Jason because he was going away and she refused to say goodbye to him. Instead she ran to a window and shouted after him, “Badbye, Daddy, badbye!”
Noun
The acknowledgement of a departure involving such negative emotions.
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She walked to the railing where airport people, who waited to wave goodbyes (and even badbyes) to their loved (and hated) ones, leaned.
I remember saying goodbye to all of my friends. But, I was telling lies, it wasn’t a goodbye at all, it was a badbye.
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Her last words to him: Don’t hurt anyone else. But did she mean: Don’t hurt me. / That wasn’t a goodbye. It was a badbye.