hail-fellow

American  

[heyl-fel-oh, heyl-fel-oh] / ˈheɪlˈfɛl oʊ, ˈheɪlˌfɛl oʊ /

noun

1. Also hail fellow, hail-fellow well met a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.

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adjective

1. sociable; heartily genial.

   His hail-fellow manner helped him to advance in the sales force.

Etymology

Origin of hail-fellow

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Then came “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” — all movies that leaned on the hail-fellow joshing of actors like Vince Vaughn, Seth Rogen and, yes, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell, now basically playing themselves.

From New York Times • May 28, 2011

And he's not very good at faking the hail-fellow camaraderie that is part of American public life, either.

From Time • Jan. 21, 2010

But in the past 15 years hundreds of imperiled seafarers owe their lives to the hail-fellow flag that the fleet flies from its Johnny-on-the-spot main masts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike hail-fellow Tom Harmon, he is incapable of calling everybody on campus by his first name.

From Time Magazine Archive

He and the old colleges were hail-fellow well met; and in the quadrangles, he “walked gowned.”

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob