bye
Out of the way; remote.
Adjective
- Out of the way; remote.
- At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him. - 1765, The Parasite, page 194:
- I left Colchester at one o'clock, and had a very agreeable ride from thence to my Uncle's– It is a very bye road , I did not meet a carriage or horse all the way, which is I believe eleven or twelve miles, but however I...
- So riding towards Cheshunt in the same county, he put into a bye sort of a house, a little out of the road, in which, finding only a poor old woman bitterly weeping, and asking the reason of shedding those tears, she...
- Secondary; supplementary.
- But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to...
- As we shall see presently the wife of a craftsman almost always worked as her husband's assistant in his trade, or if not, she often eked out the family income by some such bye industry as brewing and spinning;...
- It is the custom in some provinces to pay only according to the basic crops produced, but in others the share is calculated out of the total produce of the farm, both bye and main products. - 2018, Victor D Lippit,...
Origin
Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).
Forms
Interjection
- Goodbye.
- An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.
- “Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]” - 2015, Amir...
- Rowlings-Blake responded: "Girl bye, if he can't take criticism from 'a joke', what's he gonna do when somebody real comes for him? #notready" - 2016 August 7, Susan Edelman, C.J. Sullivan, Bruce Golding, “Trump...
- Her jeans don't even got the loops for her damn belt LMFAO bye 😭 - 2021 February 18, @mi55fatima, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:
Synonyms: get out of here applesauce bender bollocks bosh bugger off bullcrap bullcrud bullfuck bullshit chinny reckon codswallop come off it come on c'mon fiddle fiddledeedee fiddle-faddle fiddlefart fiddlestick fiddlesticks flummery fuck off gertcha
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god Middle English God English God Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyétider.? Proto-Germanic *beuną Proto-West Germanic *beun Old English bēon Middle English been English be Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *wí Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *wíterosder. Proto-Indo-European *wíterom Proto-Germanic *wiþrą Proto-West Germanic *wiþr Old English wiþerclip. Old English wiþ Middle English wiþ English with Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you ▲ English goodinflu. English...
Derived
badbye bye-bye cheery-bye hi-bye friend kthxbye rockabye tatty bye
Noun Entry 3
- The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
- The Patriots were in the unique situation of having to play 16 straight games, then have their bye in week 17, whether they needed it or not. - 2020, Jerry Thornton, From Darkness to Dynasty:
- An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
- A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
- The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England. - 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify...
- An unspecified way or place.
- Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there. - 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Manneringv:
- This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye. - 1880, W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb:
- No word of a new house-keeper down bye, Wull? - 1894, David Storrar Meldrum, Margridel:
- A pass.
Forms
Derived
Noun alt of, pronunciation spelling
- Eye dialect spelling of boy.
- "So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can." - 1883, Rose Garfield Clemens, “Pat and the Pig”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly...
- 'Och,' sez I, 'there's many a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.' - 1887, “Pat's Love Episode”, in Parry's Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 252:
- There a bye has his hand toorn off, and there a bye loses his eyesight complately, and over yan a bye has his joogular vein torn wid a whistlin' boom, and forninst that is the bye who thinks his gun isn't loaded and...
Forms
Noun alt of, obsolete
- Obsolete spelling of bee.
Origin
Alternative forms.
Related
Preposition
- Obsolete spelling of by.