compadre
/kɒmˈpɑːdreɪ
/noun (plural compadres) informal, chiefly US
A way of addressing or referring to a friend or companion: if you lose this, I’ll have you dangling from the tallest tree, compadre...
- Put those rumors to rest, my toon-loving compadre.
- Through a familiar process of chain migration, homeland relatives, neighbors, and friends joined compadres in specific Alabama towns and workplaces.
- I have been to the tax office at Constant Spring Road all too often, and I know that this is the Tax Office that most of my friends and compadres visit.
Origin
Spanish, literally 'godfather', hence 'benefactor, friend'. Compare with compère and gossip.
- parenthetically
- parenthood
- parenticide
- parent-in-law
- parent kernel
- parent language
- parentless
- parent-like
- parents' day
- parent ship
- parentship
- parents' meeting
- parent–child
- parent–teacher
- parent–teacher association
- pareo
- Pareoean
- parer
- parera
- parergal
- parergic
- parergon
- pareschatology
- paresis
- paresthesia