buddy-buddyn.adj.
/ˈbʌdɪˌbʌdi/, U.S. /ˈbədiˌbədi/ colloquial.
A. n.
A close (male) friend; a pal, a chum. In later use frequently depreciative, with reference to friends or associates perceived as having an overly friendly or cliquish relationship. Occasionally as a familiar form of address. to be buddy-buddies with: to be very friendly with (another person); to have as a close friend.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend
friendOE
wineOE
fellowa1225
friendmana1250
lovera1275
amic1330
gossipc1390
mikea1400
ally1406
amykec1450
favourer1483
favourite1590
palc1770
butty1791
amigo1813
amico1820
compadre1834
pally1863
tillicum1869
nigger1884
buddy1895
paxc1900
mutual1901
righto1908
segotia1917
bud1924
palsy1930
palsy-walsy1932
buddy-buddy1943
winger1943
mucker1947
main man1956
goombah1968
gabba1970
money1982
1943 Sheppard Field Texacts 21 Aug. 3/2 Take me witcha, buddy-buddy.
1953 Proc. Convent. Switchmen's Union N. Amer. 73/2 Him and Glover had been buddy-buddies but had a falling-out.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xviii. 115 This way they stopper up the information without offence to old buddy buddies.
1987 B. Berkowitz Local Heroes 72 It doesn't mean they're buddy-buddies with the person they're angry with. But they're not going to be violent with that person.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxxviii. 362 In another picture Cary Grant was to be seen with his arm around Burnett's shoulder..—real buddy-buddies they looked.
B. adj.
Very friendly; ‘pally’. In later use frequently depreciative: overly friendly.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > on terms of fellowship
pallish1892
pally1895
matey1915
palsy-walsy1933
buddy-buddy1947
pally-wally1954
palsy1960
1947 M. Blosser Freckles & His Friends in Independent-Record (Helena, Montana) 2 Aug. 6/3 I didn't say I wanted to be buddy-buddy with this African character.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xxv. 184 Those two got real buddy-buddy.
1964 Hearings before President's Comm. Assassination President Kennedy (U.S. Govt.) IX. 215 I declined to go—purely for business reasons—because I didn't want my clients to think that I was buddy buddy with Mikoyan.
1989 J. S. Borthwick Bodies of Water (1991) xv. 159 What a switch. Now he's all buddy-buddy, thought Sarah. What's he up to?
1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) iii. 93 His posture became different, more relaxed and buddy-buddy.
2002 Time 18 Feb. 34/1 Lay put his arm around Fastow and proclaimed his ‘unequivocal trust’ in the CFO... A day after that buddy-buddy display, Fastow was history.
Compounds
buddy-buddy film n. originally U.S. a film portraying a close friendship between two people of the same sex, typically men; cf. buddy film n. at buddy n. Compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1974 Winona (Minnesota) Sunday News 17 Feb. It may well be that the new wave of buddy-buddy films is not..an honest effort to define the complexity of the issue of male-male relationship.
1999 S. Kramer After Beep 45 Harrison: Our hero, our Indiana Jones type, has to go back in time and prevent this. Caesar: It's a buddy-buddy film.
2014 E. J. Fink Dramatic Story Struct. iii. 46 Many buddy-buddy films are also road-trip films.
buddy-buddy movie n. originally U.S. a movie portraying a close friendship between two people of the same sex, typically men; cf. buddy movie n. at buddy n. Compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1972 Washington Post 5 May b1 She introduces a totally different sensibility into what is fundamentally another jaunty buddy-buddy movie for actors.
1994 N. Mosley Efforts at Truth (1995) xvi. 213 We were in some buddy-buddy movie after all! and eventually out on the streets, dishevelled, but with our arms round one another's shoulders.
2000 Independent 16 June (Friday Review section) 11/1 Forget buddy-buddy movies. The pairing of Madonna and Rupert Everett in The Next Best Thing is the latest addition to a far more interesting genre—the buddy-biddy picture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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