A lullaby or soothing song sung to help a baby fall asleep.
Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, possibly from 'ba' or 'baa' (representing a bleating sound) combined with 'low,' or influenced by 'lullaby'; primarily used in Scottish folk traditions.
Balow appears in Robert Burns' poetry and Scottish ballads, representing a whole cultural tradition of mother-songs and nursery rhymes that were passed down orally through generations—it's a linguistic fossil of everyday parenting.
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