Good-byer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who says good-bye. rare

    "The Churchman's Companion If that last deputation of good-byers hadn't made us all wretched I should have begun to fancy we were statues or idiots."

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"The Churchman's Companion If that last deputation of good-byers hadn't made us all wretched I should have begun to fancy we were statues or idiots."

Etymology

From good-bye + -er. First used in the mid-19th century.

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