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
His jokey conference speeches and matey persona had made him a favourite among grassroots party activists, who saw him as one of their own.
From BBC ● May 23, 2017
“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
Why, she went off beautifully, but the lubberly mateys contrived to get her foul of the hulk, and Lord Vernon came out of the conflict minus a leg and an arm.'—'Who had you there?'
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 by Various
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
