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Buddy

[buhd-ee]

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noun

comrade or chum (often used as a term of address).

bud².

verb (used without object)

to be a companion; be friendly or on intimate terms.

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to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

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Verb phrases

buddy up,

to become friendly; be on friendly or intimate terms.

to work closely together: to buddy up with a student from another high school.

buddy up to, to become friendly with or curry the favor of: He was buddying up to the political bosses.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; perhaps reduced form of brother

Example Sentences

AS with all great film genres, the buddy movie has a built-in structure.

Having a buddy that wants to run and be outside would be deeply satisfying.

My opponent's buddy lists of cross-continental collaborators are people who enjoyed a literary education.

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AS with all great film genres, the buddy movie has a built-in structure.

Having a buddy that wants to run and be outside would be deeply satisfying.

My opponent's buddy lists of cross-continental collaborators are people who enjoyed a literary education.

He quickly morphed from wide-eyed acolyte into colleague and drinking buddy.

Picturing a mutual furture or plan with your buddy could have the same creativity effect.

Bring your buddy for part of the drive, but leave him in well-trained hands before the road gets twisty.

The best utility is a location-sharing function that shows you and your buddy on a map.

Each sib has a buddy sib not worrying about lost socks.

Must be a buddy of his who needed some promotion for one reason or another.

Sarah is an impeccably urban coffee shop entrepreneur and buddy.

Buddy over here thinks he's right with his bible story.

If you befriend other species, they'll try to buddy up with you, and they'll help you on your quest.

Grad school buddy unfortunately did have some disconcerting information to share––not deal-breaking stuff but not great news.

My buddy was in charge of looking out for other white sharks in the vicinity.

And buddy over there thinks he is right with his random/chance theory.

There are even a few quick-access buttons for emoticons and pulling up buddy lists.

Relate to the answers your buddy gives you when and if you can, because you do want to find commonality.

They do not want to acknowlege the fact that their own buddy really should go to jail.

The boston is so mean to other animals except his buddy the poodle and his cat.

Cheng says building an online network starting with your buddy list makes the networking process more natural.

Another snoring bed buddy a few years back tried the mouth guard and it helped the snoring but made her drool all over the bed.

Please be a buddy and share with the fellow commenters where the stolen petrol products on bargain price can be found.

So there was no easy way if at all she could get to buddy.

Why, the soldiers are well-trained, and they recognize when their former buddy is about to go nuclear.

The thought of the joy in that little dog knowing that his buddy had found him a home.

Buddy is absolutely wonderful in all aspects of behavior, training and socialization.

She is potty trained, loves the nylabones, and makes a great walking buddy and friend.

Buddy is my oldest, and when i walk him, he is literally pulling me down the block.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a male given name.

noun

Charles (“Buddy”), 1868?–1931, U.S. cornet player: early pioneer in jazz.

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World English Dictionary

buddy (ˈbʌdɪ)

—n , pl -dies
1.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) an informal word for friend Also called (as a term of address): bud
2.	a volunteer who visits and gives help and support to a person suffering from AIDS
3.	a volunteer who gives help and support to a person who has become disabled but is returning to work

—vb , -dies, -dying, -died
4.	(intr) to act as a buddy to a person suffering from AIDS

[C19: probably a baby-talk variant (US) of brother]

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Word Origin & History

buddy

1850, Amer.Eng., 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.,

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and long associated with coal miners. Short form bud is attested from 1851.

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"You cannot go ten yards, on any thoroughfare, without being passed by some Rotarian of Literature, hurrying to attend a luncheon, banquet, tea, or get-together, where he may rush about from buddy to buddy, slapping shoulders, crying nicknames, and swapping gossip of the writing game. I believed for as long as possible that they were on for their annual convention, and I thought they must run their little span and disappear, like automobile shows, six-day bicycle races, ice on the pavements, and such recurrent impedimenta of metropolitan life. But it appears that they are to go on and on. Their fraternal activities are their livings—more, their existences."

-Dorothy Parker

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