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hail-fellow-well-met

adjective

  1. genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way

    a hail-fellow-well-met slap on the back

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


hail-fellow-well-met

  1. A term describing a person who is superficially friendly and is always trying to gain friends. Such a person may also be referred to as a “ glad-hander .”


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Example Sentences

It could not be that Gordon, could it, with his hail-fellow-well-met manner?

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

Cf. the use of the phrase "to be hail-fellow-well-met with anyone."

Mr. Clavering is fastidious, and will not feel honored by the attentions of one who is hail-fellow-well-met with everybody.

She is from Cagliari—and can't do much with the cabbage soup: and tells the waiter so, in her deep, hail-fellow-well-met voice.

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