buddy
noun
comrade or chum (often used as a term of address).
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Vonetta, who was buddying up to one of the three sisters, could get her own toast.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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