Meaning

2 senses
  1. (slang)A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.

    Ahoy mateys, scrub the deck!

  2. (slang)A dockyard worker.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Matey is a lavender faroese sheepdog puppy with aqua blue eyes and a pink nose.

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Forms

plural: mateys
Singularmatey
Pluralmateys

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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