different between guys vs buddy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?z, IPA^(key): /?a?z/
• Homophone: guise
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

guys

1. plural of guy
2. (colloquial) Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.

Verb

guys

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guy

Anagrams

• yugs

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)

1. A friend or casual acquaintance.

   Synonyms: bud, mate; see also Thesaurus:friend

2. A partner for a particular activity.

   Synonyms: companion, partner

3. 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)

1. (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)

1. 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.

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