playfellow
English
Etymology
play + fellow
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpleɪˌfɛləʊ/
Noun
playfellow (plural playfellows)
- (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], “chapter XIX”, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:
- "Linton is just six months younger than I am, {...} How delightful it will be to have him for a playfellow!"
- 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914, OCLC 1224185:
- Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows—carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- "I’ve brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
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