matey vs tame

matey

adj
  • Sociable or friendly. 

noun
  • A dockyard worker. 

  • A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate. 

tame

adj
  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

verb
  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

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