different between playmate vs playfeer

English

From play +? mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.

playmate (plural playmates)

A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
A female who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.
(euphemistic) A person's lover.

From Middle English playfere, equivalent to play +? feer.

playfeer (plural playfeers)

(obsolete) A playfellow; playmate.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, The Moone Calfe
  Where she was wont to call him her dear son, / Her little play-feer, and her pretty bun.

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