matey
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He can be matey or imperious as the fancy takes him.
From Golf Digest ● May 5, 2020
He is very matey even if there must be 20 years between us.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019
Not since George Carlin reëmerged angry and articulate, in the nineties, has a comedian called American bullshit to order so eloquently, or with more matey good cheer.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 7, 2015
That doesn't mean being matey with them all the time, because you've got to say tough things to people, that they don't want to hear.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2015
“Arr, matey, who dares to disturb the pirate captain’s slumber?”
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
"Would you mind me lookin' at passes, mateys?" demanded the picket, entering the compartment.
From The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill
We at length received our rudder from the hands of the dockyard mateys.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
