make friendly

present singular third person makes friendly · participle present making friendly · participle past made friendly · past made friendly

1. To act in a friendly or conciliatory way.

   She told them, the first time they came up to her to make friendly, that Blossom made her want to throw up.

   1996, Cynthia Voigt, chapter 2, in Bad Girls, New York: Scholastic, page 49

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   What surprised me most, though, was the way the gals hung round for free tickets. ¶ They didn’t make any bones of it, but come up and made friendly with me the easiest I ever experienced. It was so sorter onusual that it took me quite a spell to git used to their sociable ways.

   1887, William Timothy Call, Josh Hayseed in New York, New York: Exceslsior, page 78

   “Here you have the word friendly,” the teacher said, pointing to another red-pencil wound. “You said, ‘dog and cat can not make friendly.’ We do not used that word in that way.”

   1970, Joanne Greenberg, chapter 10, in In the Sign, New York: Avon, published 1972, page 120

   He tried to make friendly with some black guys who were new to the neighborhood but got limp handshakes and ice-cool eyes in return.

   2004, George Pelecanos, Hard Revolution, Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, Part 1, Chapter Eleven

   Over many decades, Australian audiences have seen Kerri-Anne Kennerley do just about everything from making friendly with Hollywood superstars to doing the Macarena with the treasurer […]

   2016 April 11, Neil McMahon, “Kerri-Anne Kennerley bares all for Mike Willesee on Sunday Night”, in The Sydney Morning Herald