Noun

(en noun)

(Australia) A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another .

What?s up, cobber ?

G'day cobber!

* 1953 , , 2010, unnumbered page,

“He?s a good cobber', even if he is the parson,” he said at last. “He?s a good ' cobber .”

“That?s right,” said Jim patiently. “He?s a good cobber , and he?s the parson. Now you buzz off and leave him be. We?ve got business to talk here.”

* 1955 , Charles McCormac, “You?ll Die in Singapore!” , page 181,

He was the first member of our forces we had seen for five months. “Hi ya, cobber ,” muttered Don.

* 2009 , George W. Adams, Under the Southern Cross , page 137,

A voice from out of nowhere challenged: “Who is going away cobber'?” “Bob!” I shouted. “Boy, am I glad to see you ... Where the hell have you been, my dear bloody ' cobber ?”

Noun

(en noun)

One with whom one shares a bed.

* 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .

''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,

''Whither away, or where is thy abode?

''Happy the parents of so fair a child;

''Happier the man whom favourable stars

Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .

An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

* 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux , Chapter 40.

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