bosom friend

One's close or closest friend; a friend one holds dear to one's heart. We grew up right next door to each other, so we have been bosom friends since we were kids.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Terese	te-RES (Swedish)	Basque, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Janet	JAN-ət	English
Flip	FLIP	Dutch
Boyd	[bɔid]
Paula	POW-lah (German, Finnish, Spanish, Polish, Croatian), PAWL-ə (English), POW-lə (Portuguese), PAW-oo-law (Hungarian)	German, English, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish,
Salah Al-Din	-	Arabic