FAMILIAR, FAMILIARITY, FAMILIARIZE, FAMILIARIZED, FAMILIARLY, FAMILIAR WITH
ADJECTIVES
– ACQUAINTABLE † easy to be acquainted with, affable, familiar …c1400
– AINLIE † familiar, not estranged …1825 Sc.
– BEKNOWN known, acquainted, familiar …1429 arch.
– BUDGE intimate, familiar …1890 Amer. dial.
– CAIF familiar …Bk1898 Sc.
– FAMILARY familiar, acquainted, intimate, friendly …c1450
– FAMILIOUS familiar …1884 Amer. dial.
– GALLANT improperly familiar …1826 Sc.
– HABITED † familiarized, accustomed, practised, used to …1615
– HAIL-FELLOW on a most intimate footing; over familiar or unduly intimate …1580
– HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET on a most intimate footing; over familiar or unduly intimate …1581
– HAIL-MATE † on a most intimate footing; over familiar or unduly intimate …1577
– KENSPECKLE, KENSPICKLE easily recognizable; conspicuous; of familiar appearance …1768 Sc.
– NATURAL affable, familiar, gentle; guileless …1894 Sc.
– NATURAL-LOOKING familiar …1946 Amer. dial.
– OBVERSANT † standing over against, opposite, contrary; also, placed in front of; hence, familiar, well-known …1579
– QUAINTED † familiar …1586
– QUIM AND COSH intimate and familiar …1723 Sc.
– THICK AS THIEVES in close association, familiar, intimate, inseparable …1833 UK sl.
– THRANG intimate, familiar, friendly; esp. used in a bad sense …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THRONG intimate, familiar, friendly; esp. used in a bad sense …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– VERSANT versed in or conversant with a subject, etc.; familiar with; knowing the ways of …1711 Sc.
ADVERBS
1787 ► HAND TO NEIVE hand in glove, intimately, familiarly, close together → Sc.
1813 ► HAND FOR NEIVE hand in glove, intimately, familiarly, close together → Sc.
1844 ► PACKLIE in a friendly manner, intimately, familiarly → Sc.
1844 ► PACKLIKE in a friendly manner, familiarly → Sc.
NOUNS
– ACCUSTOMING † the act of making oneself familiar with, using, practising, consorting …1567
– PART OF THE FURNITURE anyone or anything so familiar as to make no more impression than a familiar piece of furniture; one taken for granted …L18 sl.
– TAME † a thing with which one is familiar …1606 poetic
– HABILITY * the quality of being habile; deftness; readiness; easy familiarity …1840
– HABITUDE † familiar relation or acquaintance; familiarity, intimacy; association …1612
– PACKNESS friendship, harmony, familiarity, intimacy …1825 Sc.
– THICKNESS familiarity, intimacy, friendliness …1895 Eng. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1650 ► HAIL-FELLOW an intimate or familiar associate → obs.
1676 ► HABITUDE a person with whom one is familiar; an associate; an acquaintance → obs.
L18 ► PART OF THE FURNITURE anyone or anything so familiar as to make no more impression than a familiar piece of furniture; one taken for granted → sl.
VERBS
– CUSTOM † to make usual, habitual, or familiar; to practise habitually …1392
– FELLOWSHIP to associate with, to be on familiar terms with …1861 Amer. dial.
– HABIT † to accustom, to familiarize, to habituate …1615
– KNOW BACKWARDS to be very familiar with …1904 sl.
– KNOW INSIDE OUT to be very familiar with …1921 sl.
– KNOW LIKE THE BACK OF ONE’S HAND to be very familiar with …1943 sl.
– WALK THE WALK to be (or behave as if) totally familiar with, and a part of, a given circumstance; to suit one’s actions to one’s words …2004 UK sl.
– WALK THE WALK AND TALK THE TALK to be (or behave as if) totally familiar with, and a part of, a given circumstance; to suit one’s actions to one’s words …2004 UK sl.