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CHEERIE-BYE, int. also cheery-bye. Sc. forms of Eng. cheerio.Sc. 1995 Herald 24 Jun 2:
Well, try and keep upright. Cheerie bye.
Cheerie bye, Scottie.Sc. 1999 Sunday Herald 15 Aug 13:
When Spotty Perkins from 5b comes off stage after his first really successful gig as a stand up comic to discover a fun-sized pack of eighteen-year-old girls treating him like, well, if not Ronan Keating, then at the very least some kind of potential sex magnet, do you think that he is going to bid them cheerie-bye and whip out his bus pass for one last demon spin around the block on the way back to cocoa with mumsie? Is he hell.Sc. 2002 Edinburgh Evening News 4 Jul 11:
A haven from bed-time discoveries that three pages of spelling have not been attempted, and cheery-bye for now to that early morning rummaging in the dirty laundry basket for the reclaimed school sweatshirt that will "just have to do another day".