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Buddy vs Confidant - What's the difference?

buddy | confidant |

As a proper noun buddy

is a male nickname.

As a noun confidant is

a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

buddy

English

Noun

(buddies)
  • A friend or casual acquaintance.
    • They have been buddies since they were in school.
  • A partner for a particular activity.
    • drinking buddies
  • An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know.
    • Hey, buddy , I think you dropped this.

    Synonyms

    * (friend or acquaintance): mate * (address to a stranger): mate * See also

    Derived terms

    * buddy store * buddy system * buddy up * Buddyroll * fuck buddy

    Verb

  • To assign a buddy, or partner.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Philip Briggs & Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide citation
    • , passage=If you are being formally buddied , have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.}} English terms of address

    confidant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
    • You love me for no other end / Than to become my confidant and friend; / As such I keep no secret from your sight. — Dryden.

    See also

    * confidante ----