Buddy vs Intimate - What's the difference?
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A friend or casual acquaintance.
A partner for a particular activity.
An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know.
To assign a buddy, or partner.
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, 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
Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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As nouns the difference between buddy and intimate
is that buddy is a friend or casual acquaintance while intimate is a very close friend.As verbs the difference between buddy and intimate
is that buddy is to assign a buddy, or partner while intimate is to suggest or disclose discreetly.As a proper noun Buddy
is a male nickname.As an adjective intimate is
closely acquainted; familiar.buddy
English
Noun
(buddies)- They have been buddies since they were in school.
- drinking buddies
- Hey, buddy , I think you dropped this.
Synonyms
* (friend or acquaintance): mate * (address to a stranger): mate * See alsoDerived terms
* buddy store * buddy system * buddy up * Buddyroll * fuck buddyVerb
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intimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.