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1931, perhaps originally U.S. underworld slang, usually with up, from buddy (n.). Related: Buddied; buddying.
1850, American English, possibly an alteration of brother, or from British colloquial butty "companion" (1802), itself perhaps a variant of booty in booty fellow "confederate who shares plunder" (1520s). But butty, meaning "work-mate," also was a localized dialect word in England and Wales, attested since 18c., and long associated with coal miners. Short form bud is attested from 1851. Reduplicated form buddy-buddy (adj.) attested by 1952, American English.\n\nLenny Kent, a long-time fave here, is really in his element. ... After four weeks here he's got everone in town saying, "Hiya, Buddy, Buddy" with a drawl simulating his.
[Review of Ned Schuyler's 5 O'Clock Club, Miami Beach, Fla., "Billboard," Nov. 12, 1949]
\n Buddy system attested from 1920.Wiktionary
n. 1 A male nickname. 2 (context rare , chiefly US English) (given name male from=English).
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Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets kept by the Clinton family while Bill Clinton was President of the United States. The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks.
Buddy may refer to:
Buddy (1986) was a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand.
It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne.
Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.
Buddy is an indie pop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 2006 and named after the lead singer.
Buddy is a Norwegian city electric car, produced by Buddy Electric, formerly known as Pure Mobility and Elbil Norge AS, at Økern in Oslo. In 2007, the Buddy, and its predecessor, the Kewet, made up 20% oof the electric cars in Norway. Since its inception in 1991, combined sales of the Kewet and Buddy totaled about 1,500 units through October 2013, of which, 1,087 were registered in Norway.
"Buddy" is the third single released by De La Soul from their album 3 Feet High and Rising.
The song is often cited as an example of an effective remix; one that includes a change of song lyrics or beat. In this case, both the original song's lyrics and the musical bed received a make over. With its Taana Gardner sampling bassline, the 7 minute 12" version was clearly tailor-made for dancefloors and provided a striking contrast to the laid back album version.
The song was also famous for featuring the major members of the Native Tongues posse, including Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah and Monie Love. While Phife appears in the video itself and is heard in the extended mix, the mix in the video eliminates his entire verse.
Buddy is a 1997 New Zealand/American film directed by Caroline Thompson and produced by Columbia Pictures with help from Jim Henson Pictures. It starred Rene Russo as Mrs. Gertrude 'Trudy' Lintz and Robbie Coltrane as her husband.
The film was based on the life of a gorilla called Massa with elements of Gertrude Lintz's other gorilla Gargantua (who was called "Buddy" at the time). In real life, Massa became the oldest gorilla on record until 2008, while Buddy/Gargantua died young as a circus attraction and his remains are now on display in a museum.
The gorilla suit used for Buddy was created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Buddy (1982) is a novel written by Nigel Hinton. The main characters are Buddy Clark, his mother Carol Clark, his father Terry Clark and Julian and Charmian Rybeero. The story deals with issues such as racism, thieving and child neglect.
The book was made into a television series starring Roger Daltrey as Buddy's father Terry in 1986.
It was the first installment in the Buddy trilogy and is followed by Buddy's Song (1987) which became a film (starring Chesney Hawkes and Roger Daltrey) in 1991 and Buddy's Blues (1995).
Buddy is still widely used in English lessons at British and Irish secondary schools, sometimes with the TV series to compare the two media.
Buddy is a 2003 Norwegian film directed by Morten Tyldum after a script by Lars Gudmestad. The music was composed by Lars Lillo-Stenberg, known from the band DeLillos. The film was well received by critics, and won two Amanda Awards in 2004.
The Buddy is a motor scooter distributed in the United States by Genuine Scooters of Chicago, Illinois. Introduced in 2006, the Buddy is the most popular scooter sold by Genuine and is sold in 150 of its dealerships throughout the country. It is manufactured by PGO Scooters of Taiwan, and is marketed in similar configurations as the Bubu in Taiwan, the Metro in Canada, and the Ligero in the United Kingdom.
The standard Buddy features a 50 cc two-stroke engine or a larger displacement four-stroke engine, air-cooled, with automatic (CVT) transmission. The braking system consists of front disc and rear drum brakes. Models with 150 cc engined with special trim have been offered. A 168 cc model was introduced in 2011.
Buddy is a 2013 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Raaj Prabavthy Menon. The film has been produced by Augustin Jackson and it features Anoop Menon, Srikanth, Bhumika Chawla, Balachandra Menon, Babu Antony, Asha Sarath, Arun Midhun and Mithun Murali. Balachandra Menon made a comeback after a long time through this film. The film did fairly well at the box office.
Sebastian Erl is a German singer originating from Berlin known by the artistic name Buddy. He is best known for his hit "Ab in den Süden" in 2003.
Usage examples of "buddy".
Scarlet clusters of acne stood out on his cheeks, and his glasses, retro Buddy Holly, were smudged at the corners where he was fiddling with them.
Your buddy yonder might be willin to haul your ass all over Mexico but I damn sure aint.
Jean-Luc Avoirdupois, but he greeted me as if we were all buddies and this whole business with the spine had ever happened.
Years before, at the beginning of the sixties, Buddy and I had been trying to grow psilocybin mushrooms in a cottage-cheese vat at the little creamery Daddy staked Buddy to after he got out of Oregon State.
I spoke enough Spanish and Buddy had enough creamery credentials that we talked them out of an E tank of nitrous.
Buddy and cousin Davy drive out in the creamery van with a load of plywood and we work the night away nailing it down.
And on the Iceshelf I had been hurt three times -- twice cut from shrapnel after white mines had killed buddies, once lanced from a long-range sniper -- that final wound serious enough to bring in a priest who all but demanded that I accept the cruciform before it was too late.
He hoped to God he never had to go through something like that again--watching them wheel IC, eith away, knowing that he would never see his old buddy again.
He was eradicated by your buddies in the ChronoGuard seventeen years ago.
Your Facer buddies were probably the ones that gassed and kidnapped us.
Any marvel of the physical world interested Buddy, and this squat mystery tossing him to and fro absolutely fascinated him.
With a fluidity that belied her appearance, Buddy dropped into a perfect lotus beside the deck, then turned to stare up at me, waiting.
Betsey had been very nice to Amanda, and they were cafeteria buddies, but Amanda shied away from most gatherings, particularly gabfests where everyone was expected to reveal their innermost secrets.
Surveillance Squad 5 got a tip-some anonymous ginch said her boyfriend and his buddy were going to take the market off, she was pissed at the boyfriend for porking her sister.
His multi-shot hackbuts won or all but won at least two full-scale battles for English arms, and his large-bore breech-loading rifled cannon are on the way to revolutionizing naval warfare, not to even mention the advances in other, less warlike, directions that his endless experiments are turning out, like that light but sturdy and comfortable springed carriage there, that Buddy Webster came down here in.