matey , auch: maty

"The sergeant doesn't seem very matey yet, though, does he?"

She gave him another extremely matey look and then, in her usual fashion collapsed superbly into a chair.

You two are getting very matey," Nash grumbled.

You don't wanna get too matey with him.'

"I'm very matey really--people interest me enormously.

All very matey, isn't it?"

He lost the dressing room with Wolfsburg, now Forest- and also with England where he tried to be too matey with the players.

As for the legendary "chemistry", Lost in Showbiz traditionally defines that as "an overly matey bloke and a woman who wouldn't give him one in a million years".

She was being very matey indeed, Dominic thought, evidently Kitty was really somebody; but then, a girl who drove a Karmann-Ghia was bound to be somebody.

The seafaring life imposes a certain mateyness on its participants - and Hull, like many an old seaport, is a very matey kind of town - but like the certain knowledge of death in two weeks' time (something else the seafaring life resembles) it also focuses the mind wonderfully.

I am not going to ask Matey to turn you away.

I've been sitting here and running all those old stories through my head, matey.

Not sure you've done your potential book sales much good there matey.

Well, they're going to get us out of here, matey.

The green, matey, ethical stuff went down well for a while.

I'd rather get knocked out than win anything playing like that matey.

He was regarding me with a new expression, not particularly matey.

I'm afraid you shot yourself in the foot with that one, matey!

"A good matey to walk by your side through thick and thin."

Is the public looking to test the limits of Cameron's matey image?

You've an awful lot to learn, matey, and you're looking at teacher, like it or not.

And Matey badly needed help; indeed, she was looking at him with something like approval.

Matey will be back soon, and - oh, what would she say to me for seducing you as I did?

That must have been a battle and a half, matey."

"Wrong, matey, they would've tried to get us whether or not.

How it would all end Matey could not imagine.

But that's the sort of thing I mean, matey.

Bet I lowered the river level by a foot or two, matey.

"Looks like the current don't want us no more, matey.

At night she received "protection" from a man she knew as Matey.

Just thank your lucky stars you've got an honest thief like me to look after you, matey.

Tell you what, 283 matey; we'll take a run an' jump in at the same time, both o' us.

And matey done them a little bit longer.

Why couldn't I have been here to help you, matey?"

But what will I tell my matey when he helps me bring the crate up from the hold?"