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▪ I. matey, n.|ˈmeɪtɪ|
[f. mate n.2: see -y.]
A diminutive of mate n.2; a companion, mate.
1833Marryat P. Simple viii, I asked of a bystander who these people were, and he told me that they were dock-yard mateys. 1859H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. xiv. 277, I took him for a flash overseer, sporting his salary, and I was as thick as you like with him. And ‘Matey,’ says I, (you see I was familiar, he seemed such a jolly sort of bird), ‘Matey, what station are you on?’ 1889P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 56 ‘Good-night, matey’, concluded the voice in the fast fading barge. 1909S. Watson Wops the Waif i. 2 ‘I say, Tickle matey, wot's all them a-readin' of on that bill over there?’ interrupted Wops. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 16 A gray, cigar-shaped vessel lying in a dry dock, with dockyard ‘maties’ swarming on board her. 1931Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 197 Polyphemus damned back at Jemmy like a Chatham matey. 1958E. Hyams Taking it Easy i. ii. 72 The dockyard ‘mateys’ who had been sent us to do the work were all Bretons from the Arsenal at Brest. 1973J. Drummond Bang! Bang! you're Dead! xxv. 86 Right, matey, 'oo told you? 1974‘M. Hebden’ Pride of Dolphins iii. iii. 232 Many of the lights in the control room were missing, probably stolen by dockyard mateys.
▪ II. matey, a.|ˈmeɪtɪ|
[f. mate n.2 + -y1.]
Like a mate or mates; friendly and familiar (with); sociable, companionable.
1915[implied in mateyness]. 1919Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 172 After the game he took me off to his cottage and gave me a drink... We got extremely matey. 1926Contemp. Rev. June 682 The British Worker, an equally deplorable organ produced by intelligentsia trying to be ‘matey’. 1929W. Deeping Roper's Row xxi. §ii, Elizabeth would..want to be matey with people. 1946Wodehouse Joy in Morning i. 4, I..continued to tut-tut a bit at having missed the young pipsqueak, with whom my relations had always been of the matiest.
Hence ˈmateyness (also matiness), friendly quality or character.
1915T. Burke Nights in Town 50 You are all so—what is the word?—matey, isn't it? Yes, that's the note of the London [music] hall—mateyness. 1928Evening News 28 Dec. 8/3 There is the same expansive geniality, the same note of unassumed ‘matiness’. 1950Landfall IV. 345 The defensive bar-room and back⁓fence matiness of New Zealand life. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 347/3 When the implied mateyness is further established by such otiose asides..one stirs uncomfortably to ask why a writer who has so much that is interesting to say should waste our time with these lazy transcriptions. 1967Listener 24 Aug. 244/2 Continuous pop and advertisements, presented with that bogus transatlantic mateyness which apparently ‘sends’ teenagers. 1974V. Gielgud In Such a Night ix. 82 She would throw a party. And in the ensuing haze of drink and mateyness grievances would..disappear. |