Playfellow vs Intimate - What's the difference?
playfellow | intimate | Related terms |
(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
Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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Playfellow is a related term of intimate.
As nouns the difference between playfellow and intimate
is that playfellow is (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with while intimate is a very close friend.As an adjective intimate is
closely acquainted; familiar.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.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.
intimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
