To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
A partner for a particular activity.
An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
A friend or casual acquaintance.
A person far removed from the conversation.
Resembling a bud.
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
To be adjacent to
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
A fellow human being.