Matey vs Mated - What's the difference?
matey | mated |
(UK) Sociable or friendly.
* 1948 , Dennis Wheatley, , 2007,
* 1995 , Gwynneth Latham, Michael C. Latham, Kilimanjaro Tales: The Saga of a Medical Family in Africa ,
* 2002 , Jon Latimer, Alamein ,
* 2002 , Alan Di Perna, Guitar World, Guitar World Presents: Pink Floyd ,
* 2005 , , An Irish History of Civilization , Volume 2,
(informal) , friend.
* 1909 , National Magazine , Volume 30,
* 1920 , Francis Stevens (), Claimed , 2009, Munsey?s,
* 1981 , , Writing My Life: An Autobiography ,
(nautical, slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially as a pirate .
* (pseudonym), In Clive?s Command , 2006, Echo Library,
* 1979 , Larona Homer, Blackbeard the Pirate'', in ''Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens ,
* 2003 , Paul Abbaszadeh, One Love: A True Love Story ,
* 2010 , Molly Burkhart, My Gigolo ,
(mate)
fitted together or interlocked
As adjectives the difference between matey and mated
is that matey is (uk) sociable or friendly while mated is fitted together or interlocked.As a noun matey
is (informal) , friend.As a verb mated is
(mate).matey
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- You've been very matey with that new bird.
page 148,
- She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey .
page 140,
- We decided that it would be more matey to have communal meals, so all the guests and hosts foregathered at the hotel for lunches and dinners, and at every sitting there were about 40 of us, all in high spirits.
page 128,
- he
[ ] wrote: ‘They[the Australians] took a bit of getting used to. I was dressed as a general and they treated me in the most matey way, but despite this it was easy to see that there was nothing wrong with their battle discipline.’
page 29,
- His opening salvo, “If you didn?t care what happened to me, and I didn?t care for you,” gives way to a more matey mood at the end: “You know that I care what happens to you. And I know that you care for me.”
page 293,
- Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus.
Noun
(en noun)- Hello, matey , just back from the pub?
page 171,
- “No, no, matey', I means no harm. Ye see, I think I done ye a bad turn onst, an? I?m minded t? do ye right afore I goes off. You bring a writer here, ' matey , an? I?ll tell ye what.”
page 49,
- And take my advice, matey . When yer buys it, don?t yer make Lutz?s mistake and think yer can wriggle out easy.
page 247,
- “You've got great legs, matey ,” he said to me. “You know that?” They were good straight legs, and could run, but I had always thought them too much on the lean side.
- Ahoy mateys , scrub the deck!
page 35,
- “Well, we are and we en?t, eh, mateys ? The Waterman?s Rest en?t exactly the kind of place to spend shore leave; it en?t a patch on Wapping or Rotherhithe.”
page 91,
- “Well, Mateys ,” he said, “heave to. Rum for all.”
- The pirates grabbed their bottles, and as they drank they began to sing and laugh and shout at each other.
page 318,
- Soon the talking skull came into view and gave us a warning,
- “Avast there, it be to late to alter course mateys and there be plundering pirates lurking in every cove waiting to board.”
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- “Ahoy, mateys !” The chorus came from all sides, and he fought the urge to snicker.
- She nudged him with her elbow, and he looked down to find her eyes twinkling.
- “Hope you brushed up on your pirate lingo. The desk is over there. I gotta go use the little wench?s room.”
- He watched her go with a grin and nearly laughed again when he saw the signs on the bathroom doors. Wenches and Mateys . Good God.