Buddy vs Playfellow - What's the difference?
buddy | playfellow | Related terms |
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.
* {{quote-book, 2007, Philip Briggs & Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide
, 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
(dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
Buddy is a related term of playfellow.
As a proper noun buddy
is a male nickname.As a noun playfellow is
(dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.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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playfellow
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I’ve brought you a new playfellow ," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
- Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows --carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.