matey
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"She will have seen just as much as Andrew. It's inconceivable that she didn't. She was so matey with Epstein."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
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
In a comparatively short Parliamentary career he must have already cost the country a pretty penny in extra pay and pensions to the "mateys" and "matlows" of Devonport.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
"I had a comical adventure with a boat myself once, mateys, if you care to hear it," said old Ben as he bent leisurely upon his oar, "but maybe the young gentleman won't believe it."
From The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island by Burleigh, Cyril
