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matey

[may-tee] / ˈmeɪ ti /


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It doesn't match his public persona of the matey, personable, empathetic royal.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023

He can be matey or imperious as the fancy takes him.

From Golf Digest ● May 5, 2020

His discussions of Gorey’s work tend to be brief and shallow, and the writing is annoyingly matey.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

He relished being matey with the ultras and was seemingly blase about their darker dealings.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016

Paul turned to the photographer and made a remark in a matey undertone, as though they were sharing a pint in a pub.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

These onstage mateys may not be the Rockettes, but who needs a toe-tapping tin soldier number when you can have a pirate duel with candy canes?

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2014

Their parrots, their peg legs, their eye patches; their planks for walking, their X'ed spot-markings; their swashbuckling ways and way of talking; their "Shiver me timbers!" and "Avast there, mateys!"

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2014

“Arr roight, mateys, best dumpen this lot whurr it comed from.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

At each side of the black basin gates stood a little group of men, the majority "Dockyard mateys" of the rigger's party.

From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower

Don't let your mateys know it— You're just sufferin' from funk, funk, funk.

From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service


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