If you buddy up to everybody and anybody, pretty soon people will think you're just a people-pleaser.
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Buddy
//ˈbʌd.i//
Synonyms for "buddy" (201 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (60)
Related words (100)
Noun(22 words)
girl friendgossipgrandnephewgrandniecegrandunclegreat-auntgreat-unclehalf brotherhenchmanhobbledehoyintimatejailmatekid brotherladladdiemanchildmastermatemessmatemother
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Proper Noun(1 words)
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9 entriesTranslations
98 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ախպեր pron (informal address to a stranger)
- ապեր pron (informal address to a stranger)
Catalan
2 entries- amic pron (informal address to a stranger)
- company pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 伙伴 pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- 哥兒 /哥儿 pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- 老兄 pron (informal address to a stranger)
- 老表 pron (informal address to a stranger)
Dutch
4 entries- kerel pron (informal address to a stranger)
- maat pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- maat pron (informal address to a stranger)
- maatje pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Finnish
4 entries- kaveri pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- kaveri pron (partner for a particular activity)
- kaveri pron (informal address to a stranger)
- kaverus pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
French
4 entries- camarade pron (informal address to a stranger)
- compagnon pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- copain pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- copain pron (partner for a particular activity)
Georgian
4 entries- ამხანაგი pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- მეგობარი pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- ძმაკაცი pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- ძმობილი pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
German
3 entries- Kollege pron (partner for a particular activity)
- Kumpel pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- Kumpel pron (informal address to a stranger)
Hungarian
3 entries- cimbora pron (partner for a particular activity)
- haver pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- pajtás pron (partner for a particular activity)
Indonesian
1 entries- sobat pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Italian
4 entries- amico pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- amico pron (partner for a particular activity)
- capo pron (informal address to a stranger)
- compagno pron (partner for a particular activity)
Japanese
2 entries- 仲間 pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- 相棒 pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Kaitag
1 entries- ашнаки́ pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Khmer
3 entries- សម្លាញ់ pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- សំលាញ់ pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- សំលាញ់ pron (partner for a particular activity)
Louisiana Creole
4 entries- boug pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- djæk pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- nèg pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- padna pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- گوڭلداش pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Persian
1 entries- رفیق pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schlockat pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Polish
4 entries- kolega pron (partner for a particular activity)
- kolega pron (informal address to a stranger)
- koleś pron (informal address to a stranger)
- kumpel pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Portuguese
3 entries- colega pron (partner for a particular activity)
- companheiro pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- parceiro pron (informal address to a stranger)
Russian
4 entries- друг pron (informal address to a stranger)
- дружи́ще pron (informal address to a stranger)
- дружо́к pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- коллега pron (partner for a particular activity)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- druškan pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- druškan pron (informal address to a stranger)
- друшкан pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- друшкан pron (informal address to a stranger)
Spanish
4 entries- acere pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- acompañante pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- amiga pron (informal address to a stranger)
- amigo pron (informal address to a stranger)
Swedish
4 entries- grabben pron (informal address to a stranger)
- kompis pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- polare pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
- vännen pron (informal address to a stranger)
Turkish
1 entries- ahbap pron (friend or casual acquaintance)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
The "buddy system" is a way to stay safe while hiking in the woods, except when encountering pregnant bears, which eat for two or even three or four.
Source: tatoeba (780465)
Tom is my buddy.
Source: tatoeba (1164511)
Oh, buddy, what I need is a strong stimulus, in the most hedonistic meaning of the word.
Source: tatoeba (1247874)
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