buddy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

• Colloquial butty (1802), meaning companion, also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coalmining. Itself believed derived from booty fellow (1530), a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. [1]

• Sometimes referred to in North American dictionaries as an alteration of brother.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bʌ.di/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ʌdi

[edit] Noun

buddy (plural buddies)

1. A friend or casual acquaintance.

   They have been buddies since they were in school.

2. A partner for a particular activity.

   drinking buddies

3. (US) An informal address to a stranger; a placeholder name for a person one does not know.

   Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.

[edit] Synonyms

• (friend or acquaintance): mate
• (address to a stranger): mate

• See also Wikisaurus:friend

[edit] Derived terms

• buddy store
• buddy system
• buddy up
• Buddyroll

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to buddy (third-person singular simple present buddies, present participle buddying, simple past and past participle buddied)

1. To assign a buddy, or partner.
   • 2007, Philip Briggs & Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide^[2], ISBN 1841621773, page 86:

     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.