friendsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From friend + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: “Piers and I became friendsies in our way,” Maurice continued, smiling implacably, “two, three times a week. Always the same format in the hall.[…]”
ref: 1981, Dotson Rader, Beau Monde, Random House, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Wave bye-bye to our friendsies, Mr. Babbitt, and think naughty bunny thoughts all day.
ref: 2009, John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground (An Historical Romance 1973), Viking, →ISBN:
text: “No biscuits,” snapped the proprietress. “Your military friendsies scarfed ’em all up. For ’emselves.”
ref: 2011, Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), William Morrow, →ISBN, page 50:
text: “Listen,” he hesitated, “about what I said before. I didn’t mean to offend you,” he said, not exactly apologizing. But before he could finish, she interjected. “Friendsies?” she winked, coyly.
ref: 2013, Joe DeMono, Ciro, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 19:
text: We’re gonna meet up with our friendsies.
ref: 2013, P. D. Skelton, Renascence: A Story of Christianity in an Atheistic Future, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: The entire book writing process would have been miserable if I could not regularly hang out with my friendsies (as I call them).
ref: 2014, Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, “Acknowledgments”, in A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 258:
text: This lunch is peaches and cream. Best friendsies.
ref: 2014, Alex Berenson, The Counterfeit Agent, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN:
text: I SAID I’M DONE PLAYING “FRIENDSIES.”
ref: 2015, Ken Akamatsu, UQ Holder!, volume 5, Kodansha Comics, →ISBN:
text: First, she’s held hostage, put on the menu, knocked up, forced to play friendsies with a family of blood sucking creatures, engaged to… whatever Drakon was and now she’s turning into something that isn’t even human!
ref: 2017, Sasha Pruett, Bloodbourne:
text: There. All cozy. Twinsy friendsies! Since we’re BFFs now, how ’bout telling me why you tried to kill my brother.
ref: 2017, Stuart R. West, Nightmare of Nannies, Crossroad Press, published 2022:
text: Go in and make friendsies with the locals, or play cool and see about tailing him when he gets out?
ref: 2018, Michael Pool, Texas Two-Step, Down & Out Books:
text: I would think, since he’s friendsies with that stepchild of yours, you’d prefer that.
ref: 2019, Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever, Raven Books, →ISBN, page 148:
text: WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR DAYS FOR YOU AND YOUR FRIENDSIES AND THE PROMISE OF A REAL FIGHT.
ref: 2020, Ed Brisson, Avengers of the Wastelands, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:
text: So, you two really haven’t made friendsies yet?
ref: 2020, TaTanise Marshall, Damned Friend:
text: I don’t know how yet, but I prommy-wom that I will find a way for us to be friendsies.
ref: 2022, Jack Meggitt-Phillips, Battle of the Beast, Aladdin, published 2023, page 189:
text: Instead, I will note one of my favorite lines from the movie. “Stop working yourself up into one of your frenzies!” says Bud. To which Lou replies: “I ain’t makin’ friendsies with nobody in here!”
ref: 2023, Matthew Coniam, Nick Santa Maria, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Friends.