matey
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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
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
“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
Here, I’ve often heard of chaps having the swelled head when they’ve got on a bit; but I won’t show it, mateys.
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by William H. C. Groome
At the sight of Toley and his messmates of the Hormuzzeer, Bulger had let fall his musket and dropped to the ground, where he sat mopping his face and crying, "Go it, mateys!"
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
