badbye

Interjection

1. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Said in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions.
   • 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.”2010, Stephen Dixon, What Is All This?: Uncollected Stories, Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 534
   • 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.2019, Ray Robinson, The Mating Habits of Stags, Lightning Books, →ISBN
   1. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Used to express sadness at the departure of a friend or loved one.
   2. (childish, colloquial, humorous) Used to dismiss someone whom the speaker is angry with, such that the speaker may be happy to see them leave.
      • 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!”1976, Violet Weingarten, Half a Marriage, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 110

Noun

badbye (plural badbyes)

1. The acknowledgement of a departure involving such negative emotions.
   • She walked to the railing where airport people, who waited to wave goodbyes (and even badbyes) to their loved (and hated) ones, leaned.2009, Onyeka Nwelue, The Abyssinian Boy, DADA Books, →ISBN, page 112
   • 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.2017, Antoon A. Leenaars, The Psychological Autopsy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 184