badbye

1. childishcolloquialhumorousSaid in reaction to a departure involving painful emotions.

   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

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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.”

   2010, Stephen Dixon, What Is All This?: Uncollected Stories, Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 534

   1. childishcolloquialhumorousUsed to express sadness at the departure of a friend or loved one.
   2. childishcolloquialhumorousUsed 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

      Synonyms: good riddance

plural badbyes

1. The acknowledgement of a departure involving such negative emotions.

   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

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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.

   2009, Onyeka Nwelue, The Abyssinian Boy, DADA Books, →ISBN, page 112

   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.

   2019, Ray Robinson, The Mating Habits of Stags, Lightning Books, →ISBN