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rockabying

rockabying is the present participle and gerund of rockabye.

Meaning of rockabye

Verb

rockabye (third-person singular simple present rockabyes, present participle rockabyeing or rockabying, simple past and past participle rockabyed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To rock soothingly.
    • “We have a Chopin player in the house,” he said. And with a tiny smile he rockabyed the opening phrase of the Ballade and turned his head to look straight at Katie.1952, Isabella Holt, Rampole Place, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 258

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Questions about rockabying

What is rockabying the present participle and gerund of?
Rockabying is the present participle and gerund of rockabye.

Words near rockabying in the dictionary

  1. rockaby
  2. rockabye
  3. rockabyed
  4. rockabyeing
  5. rockabyes
  6. rockabying
  7. rockabys
  8. rockadelic
  9. rockahomine
  10. rockahominie
  11. rockahominy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockabying (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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