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Peer vs Buddy - What's the difference?

peer | buddy |

As verbs the difference between peer and buddy

is that peer is to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something while buddy is to assign a buddy, or partner.

As nouns the difference between peer and buddy

is that peer is somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else) while buddy is a friend or casual acquaintance.

As a proper noun Buddy is

a male nickname.

peer

English

(wikipedia peer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
  • * Coleridge
    • as if through a dungeon grate he peered
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
  • to come in sight; to appear.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • See how his gorget peers above his gown!

    Etymology 2

    From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
  • * Dryden
    • In song he never had his peer .
  • * Isaac Taylor
    • Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
  • # Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
  • A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
    • a peer of the realm
  • * Milton
    • a noble peer of mickle trust and power
  • A comrade; a companion; an associate.
  • * Spenser
    • He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make equal in rank.
    • (Heylin)
  • (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
    • Derived terms
    * peer-to-peer
    Related terms
    * peer assessment * peer review, peer reviewed * peer pressure * peerless * the Peers

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
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    • Anagrams

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    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