adjective, noun
adjective ~ (with sb) (BrE, informal) friendly, sometimes in a way that is not completely sincere:
She started off being quite matey with everyone.
noun (BrE) used by men as an informal way of addressing another man
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for matey is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does matey appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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