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buddy | playfellow | Related terms |

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)
  • 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

    playfellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • "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!"
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
  • 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.