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rockaby

rockaby is the alternative form of rockabye.

Meaning of rockabye

Noun

rockabye (plural rockabyes)

  1. A soothing rocking motion.
    • All the lullabies of the world suggest undulatory movements or rockabyes in the tree tops.1916, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 98

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Forms of rockaby

pluralrockabys

Questions about rockaby

What is rockaby the alternative form of?
Rockaby is the alternative form of rockabye.

Words near rockaby in the dictionary

  1. rockabillies
  2. rockabilly
  3. rockabillys
  4. rockable
  5. rockably
  6. rockaby
  7. rockabye
  8. rockabyed
  9. rockabyeing
  10. rockabyes
  11. rockabying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockaby (page history and authors); rockabye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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