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mateys

mateys is the plural of matey.

Meaning of matey

Noun

matey (plural mateys)

  1. (slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.
    • Ahoy mateys, scrub the deck!
  2. (slang) A dockyard worker.
    • He got the dockyard 'mateys' to install a primitive form of steam heating which he had seen in Navy ships […]1979, Alfred Draper, Operation Fish: The Race to Save Europe's Wealth, 1939-1945, page 48

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Proper noun capitalized: Mateys

Mateys

  1. (plural) plural of Matey

Questions about mateys

What is mateys the plural of?
Mateys is the plural of matey.
What part of speech is mateys?
Mateys is a proper noun.

Words near mateys in the dictionary

  1. matess
  2. matesses
  3. Mateuna
  4. matey
  5. mateyness
  6. mateys
  7. matfellon
  8. matfellons
  9. matfelon
  10. matfelons
  11. Matfen

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