buddy n.
1. (orig. US, also buddie) a form of address to a male.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Buddy Quow’ in Lang. in Exile (1990) 110: Dat Backrow Man go wrong you, Buddy Quow. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | ‘Dialogue between Uncoo Cudjoe & Buddy Quow’ in Willshire Squeeze 80: Den ee tun ee hed, ee say aw, buddy, aw no bin yerry so, awee in kum look pun um bumby. | |
 | Eight Years British Guiana 218: Buddy (brother) how you can tink me sha’ talk so to you? [...] ‘Buddy,’ applying to some one near, ‘you no see me?’. | |
| Texas Cow Boy (1950) 33: It’s a trade buddy, but you will have to go up to that little house yonder, to get the money. | |
| ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:iv 295: buddie, n. Applied to any small boy whose name is not known. Also used as a familiar name for the oldest brother. I still call my oldest brother Buddie. | |
| Side-stepping with Shorty 10: But say, Buddy; you tell Mr. Dawes that next time he wants me just to pull the string. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Fighting Fleets 323: W-hat yo’ reckon d-dese yere Germans aimin’ to do, b-buddy? | |
| Smile A Minute 172: Believe me, buddy, we’ll make them babies pay triple for everything they done! | |
| Gay-cat 12: Dimes every time. No nickels. Dimes, buddie, and most like a quarter or a half. | |
| Little Caesar (1932) 149: Turn your back, Buddy [...] and march straight ahead of me. | |
| ‘Snowbound’ in Gangster Stories Oct. n.p.: ‘What’s your name, buddy?’. | |
| What’s In It For Me? 111: ‘The next stop, buddy,’ he said grimly, ‘is the New Bedford.’. | |
| Really the Blues 238: You’d have a right to ask, buddy. | |
| Corner Boy 181: Buddy, you better be careful, real, real careful. | |
| Howard Street 113: Yeah, Hip ol’ buddy, gimme a quarter. | |
| Street Players 199: You got change, buddy? | |
| Skin Tight 26: You get some rest, buddy. | |
| Guardian G2 31 May 23: Is that what you’re trying to tell me — buddy, my friend — that my girl was a hooker. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Point (2008) [ebook] Piss off. See ya, boddy. | |
| Shame the Devil 112: C’mon with it, little buddy. That all you got? | |
| Devil All the Time 192: Carl looked around [...] ‘Shit, buddy, it’s just a dump’. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | IOL Cape Western News (SA) 14 Feb. 🌐 Perhaps you should catch a wake-up buddy. | |
| Lost in Trans Nation 133: [I]f you want to hold onto your child, you better forget about your Bible and your Church, buddy, and toe the line. |
2. (orig. US, also buddy-cat, buddy-roo) a friend, an acquaintance.
| in Trinidad Sentinel 8 Apr. n.p.: Den me buddy cum yerry backra chark – me bin shake – me hart go bip! bip! bip! | |
| Life In Sing Sing 246: Buddy. Companion. | |
| Wash. Times (DC) 5 Oct. 5/5: Some fellers who call themselves ‘mah buddies’ was shooting some one-cent-a-throw craps. | |
| Home to Harlem 287: Youse a punk customer, then, I tell you [...] and no real buddy o’ mine. | |
| ‘Spanish Blood’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 12: We went to school together. We used to be buddies. | |
| Really the Blues 16: I told him about my buddy Sullivan back in Chicago. | |
| Catcher in the Rye (1958) 20: He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy. [Ibid.] 32: Be a buddy. Be a buddyroo. | |
| On The Road (1972) 11: His boyhood buddies, his street buddies, his innumerable girls. | |
| Hiparama of the Classics 17: He was my buddy-cat, and he leveled with me. | |
| Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 39: He palled around with a buddy named ‘Droopy’ Pearson. | |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle 14: We’re old buddies and all, Eddie. | |
| A-Team Storybook 42: Big Mack ordered [...] seven orders of French fries for his teddybear buddy. | |
| Pulp Fiction [film script] 119: ‘Who ya callin’? ‘A buddy of mine in Toluca Lake.’. | |
| Human Stain 65: One day he’s door-gunning in Vietnam, seeing choppers explode, in midair, seeing his buddies explode. | |
| Stuff 31: The nauseating Yank brat says to his Japanese buddy, ‘You speak good English’. | |
| Life 331: Their buddies in Rhode Island wanted to lock us up. | |
| IOL Cape Western News (SA) 14 Feb. 🌐 Take a walk fat boy [...] Take your buddy with the mould on his chin with you. |
3. (W.I./UK black teen) a sexual partner.
| Queens’ Vernacular 38: buddy (euphem) the homosexual love-mate of a man. |
4. (US/W.I.) the penis.
| Countryman Karl Black 62: One of them was standing over the old man face with him buddy in him hand [...] The man say that by the time he reach up to the bus stop, the boys disappear and Daddy swallowed all the piss. | |
| Official Dancehall Dict. 7: Buddy the penis. |
In derivatives
(US) an affectionate or ironic term of address.
| Man with the Golden Arm 13: It’s just this simple, buddy-o. | |
| Catcher in the Rye (1958) 32: Be a buddy. Be a buddyroo. | |
| (con. 1950) Band of Brothers 5: Buddy-roe, you talked me into it. | |
| Entry E (1961) 108: You fascinate me, buddy-o. | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 40: Well, buddy-o, you can’t overlook the fact the main ain’t got no pants. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 423: No offense, Ben, buddy-roo. |
In compounds
(orig. US) a friend, usu. in a negative or ironic use; esp. as a term of address.
| West Side Story I i: Maybe buddy boy should get the prize. | |
| Run Man Run (1969) 119: I just want to see the show, buddy boy. | |
| Jones Men 88: We can come up with enough dope to fill this fucking car, buddy boy. | |
| That Eye, The Sky 140: I was in the nick. Remember, buddy-boy? |
see sense 2 above.
(US black) a friend, a man.
| New Hepsters Dict. in Calloway (1976) 253: buddy ghee (n.): fellow. | |
| Really the Blues 218: Hey buddy ghee, why don’t you put it with me and we’ll cop a deuceways. | |
| , | | DAS 68/1: buddy gee A young man. |
the pillion seat on a motorcycle.
| You Chirped a Chinful!! n.p.: Mortorcycle sidecar [...] Buddy Seat. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 83: Streamers and things and a bigass buddyseat with chrome. |
(US gay) hedonistic sexual intercourse without committment.
| ‘Buddy Fuck’ 🌐 Fucking Nick turned out to be the best buddy sex Wade had ever had. When they were together, it was quick and hot and dirty and completely commitment free. |