What is Matey?
1.
A word often used by pirates to address friends, aquaintences, or the scurvy low lifes who mopped the deck. Often used in succession with
Arr, matey, thar be ye booty!
Arr, matey, ye shivers me timbers!
Arr, matey, walk the plank!
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2.
Matey is a word that, on the face of it, sounds very friendly but, on the other hand with vocal inflection can be used to sound quite the opposite.
1 - "ay-up Jim 'ows it goin' matey"?
2 - Poor old Jim trying to get some
kip on a train nearBirmingham in theUK keeps getting woken up by some youngYid Geezer singing. "Oy you wouldn't be so fucking happy if this were 1943 on the Reichsbahn matey"!
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3.
Used as an alternative word for something that you cant remember the name of or just can't be bothered to say the full word.
"Pass the remote control" turns into "can you pass me the matey, theres sod all on this channel at the moment apart from those nobheads Ant and Dec"
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4.
A word used by northern people (From Reading)
Alrite matey, look at my tracker
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