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
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
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
“Harr, matey, I do!” he said, quite convincingly.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
Well, we are and we en't, eh, mateys?
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
At length, Greenwich pensioners, riggers, and dockyard mateys took their departure, to our great satisfaction, as it was impossible to bring the ship’s crew into discipline whilst they were on board.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
