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buddy

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  • Royaume-Uni//ˈbʌdi//
  • Canada//ˈbʌdi//
  • Canada/[ˈbʌɾi]/
  • Australie//ˈbɐdi//
  • //ˈbʊdi//

A friend or casual acquaintance.

nom

  1. 1

    A friend or casual acquaintance.

    They have been buddies since they were in school.

    He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.

  2. 2

    A partner for a particular activity.

    drinking buddies

    training buddies [mentor/mentee]

  3. 3

    An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.

    Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.

Étymologie

First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British 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, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).

pronom

  1. 1

    A person far removed from the conversation.

    I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.

    Buddy's loaded. 'Got like three houses.

verbe

  1. 1

    To assign a buddy, or partner, to.

    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.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Resembling a bud.

    Some of the dwarfer varieties are full of buddy growths in the early stages and these must be cut down and thrown away.

Étymologie

From Middle English buddy, buddi, equivalent to bud + -y.

Formes

pluriel
buddies
comparatif
more buddy
superlatif
most buddy
passé
buddied
participe passé
buddied
participe présent
buddying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
buddies
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).