bosom friend
bosom friend · bosom friends
закадычный друг, близкий друг
Busenfreund, Busenfreundin
A very close friendA very close friend.
» He and I are bosom friends.
Er und ich sind Sandkastenfreunde.
Meaning
1 sensesA very close friend.
Busenfreund, Busenfreundin
закады́чный другzakadýčnyj drug, бли́зкий другblízkij drug
Examples
3 sentencesHe and I are bosom friends.
deEr und ich sind Sandkastenfreunde. — xtofu80
Tom and Mary have been bosom friends for years.
deTom und Mary sind seit Jahren enge Freunde. — Dani6187
She's my bosom friend.
Translations
7 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
very close friend:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
very close friend:
Origin
Compound of bosom + friend. Compare typologically Russian напе́рсник (napérsnik), akin toCompound of bosom + friend. Compare typologically Russian напе́рсник (napérsnik), akin to Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, Russian закады́чный друг (zakadýčnyj drug), akin to кады́к (kadýk)).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source