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See 22-Down
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matey
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Word definitions for matey in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He is not a matey deity who shines a flashlight into some dark corner of his recalcitrant universe on demand. II. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Arrgh, matey , who could have expected finding a buried displeasure here? 12: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, diminutive of mate (n.) in its "male friend" sense + -y (3).
Usage examples of matey.
This relative, though in ordinary circs so genial and matey, can on occasion turn in a flash into a carbon copy of a Duchess of the old school reducing an underling to a spot of grease, and what is so remarkable is that she doesn't have to use a lorgnette, just does it all with the power of the human eye.
Now, after I had spent about eleven years working on the problem at UC, I was joined by a very smart female crystallographer, and we became rather matey, and .
Terry Neill was a new stepfather, matey, jocular, dislikeable however hard he tried.
But this was Soapy Sam, leading light of the Lawyers as Christians, tied, you might say cocooned, by his marriage to Matey, the formidable nursing sister who manned the casualty room at the Old Bailey, ready with cough sweets or Elastoplasts and calming words for lawyers attacked by disappointed clients and victims of bungled attempts at suicide.