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- noun The state of being
matey ,camaraderie ,chumminess .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That could traumatise a few younger viewers but being just about the only other women in the movie apart from Cruz, it also suggests something more worrying beneath the light-hearted mateyness.
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Lyndon good spin they did badly and lost gwynedd where did they score they didnt get Caerphilly or RCT they ar ghosts and thier mateyness with Labour has done them no good NoI am not now labour far from it I will never join or vote a party line again I saw too much the last time I joined uo
Oh What Night Valleys Mam 2008
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And "yo, Blair" could be seen as a sort of streetwise mateyness rather than a condescending summoning of a servant.
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There is the same throwing together of diverse individuals,an enforced mateyness,intense boredom with egdy periods of excitement,the food is terrible,the officers/screws tolerable or nasty.
A captive audience 2006
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Her personality - she's down-to-earth and approachable in a way that is authentic and will help us take on the faux mateyness of "Dave" Cameron.
Run, Hazel, run Luke Akehurst 2006
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We writers do not have the encouragement and mateyness I imagine, and even observe, among people whose work is a group activity.
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Yes, that's the note of the London hall -- mateyness.
Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915
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The Salvation Army method is food, warmth, mateyness; and their answer to their critics, and their reward, is the sturdy, respectable artisan who comes along a few months later to shake hands with them and give his own services in helping them in their work.
Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915
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That could traumatise a few younger viewers but being just about the only other women in the movie apart from Cruz, it also suggests something more worrying beneath the light-hearted mateyness.
The Guardian World News Steve Rose 2011
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And so I do, making a valiant stab at Business Mode, shot through with potentially suicidal mateyness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Judith Woods 2011
Wordplayer commented on the word mateyness
Hmmm....it's actually a word!
August 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word mateyness
Are there any lists which could teach us how to speak like pirates? I keep struggling with the word avast, which never means what I think it does.
August 29, 2011