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buddying

buddying is the present participle and gerund of buddy.

Meaning of buddy

Verb

buddy (third-person singular simple present buddies, present participle buddying, simple past and past participle buddied)

  1. (transitive) To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
    • If you are being formally buddied, have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.2007, Philip Briggs, Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide, →ISBN, page 86

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Phrases with buddying

Questions about buddying

What is buddying the present participle and gerund of?
Buddying is the present participle and gerund of buddy.

Words near buddying in the dictionary

  1. buddy up
  2. buddy wrapping
  3. buddy-buddies
  4. buddy-buddy
  5. buddyhood
  6. buddying
  7. buddying up
  8. buddyish
  9. buddylist
  10. buddylists
  11. buddyness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buddying (page history and authors); buddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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