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goodbuddy

goodbuddy noun: a close friend or buddy.

Noun

goodbuddy (plural goodbuddies)

  1. (nonstandard) A close friend or buddy.
    • The story is that old Claude Torneille started out up here with two rooms, see. In one he had a shop that turned out cheap caskets for niggers and the other he kept full of beds that he sold to the cathouses in Storeyville. He sold them on time before anybody else did that and he was goodbuddies...1966, Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 112
    • He pays off Bodine, full price, overriding Bodine's offer to prorate for what's missing. "Call it a little lagniappe, goodbuddy, that's Duane Marvy's way o' doin' thangs. Damn that ol' toad's got my pecker to feelin' pretty good now. Damn 'f I wouldn't like to stick it inside one them little...1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, pages 604–605

Examples of goodbuddy in a sentence

  • "Call it a little lagniappe, goodbuddy, that's Duane Marvy's way o' doin' thangs.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, pages 604–605:
  • And I knew that under his goodbuddy exterior Sam was no less serious than his big brother.2003, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 30–31:

Forms of goodbuddy

pluralgoodbuddies

Origin of goodbuddy

Compound of good + buddy.

Questions about goodbuddy

What does goodbuddy mean?
Goodbuddy means a close friend or buddy.
How do you use goodbuddy in a sentence?
"Call it a little lagniappe, goodbuddy, that's Duane Marvy's way o' doin' thangs.
What part of speech is goodbuddy?
Goodbuddy is a noun.
What is the plural of goodbuddy?
The plural of goodbuddy is goodbuddies.

Words near goodbuddy in the dictionary

  1. Goodalls
  2. Goodar
  3. Goodbody
  4. Goodbodys
  5. goodbuddies
  6. goodbuddy
  7. goodby
  8. goodbye
  9. Goodbye Philippines
  10. goodbye, cruel world
  11. goodbyed

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