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buddy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?d.i/
- Rhymes: -?di
Etymology 1
1802, colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, an alteration of brother.
Noun
buddy (plural buddies)
- A friend or casual acquaintance.
- Synonyms: bud, mate; see also Thesaurus:friend
- A partner for a particular activity.
- Synonyms: companion, partner
- An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
- Synonyms: mate, fellow
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
buddy (third-person singular simple present buddies, present participle buddying, simple past and past participle buddied)
- (transitive) To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
Etymology 2
From Middle English buddy, buddi, equivalent to bud +? -y.
Adjective
buddy (comparative more buddy, superlative most buddy)
- Resembling a bud.
- 1963, John Herbert Goddard, Chrysanthemum Growers' Treasury (page 18)
- Some of the dwarfer varieties are full of buddy growths in the early stages and these must be cut down and thrown away.
- 1963, John Herbert Goddard, Chrysanthemum Growers' Treasury (page 18)
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biddy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?di/
- Rhymes: -?di
Etymology 1
Derived from Biddy, diminutive form of Bridget. It became a generic name for an Irish maid (US), and then for an old woman.
Noun
biddy (plural biddies)
- (derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
- (uncommon) An attractive girl.
- (archaic, colloquial) An Irish maidservant.
- (by extension, derogatory) An Irishwoman.
- A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
biddy (plural biddies)
- (US) Alternative spelling of bitty.
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