hail-fellow

[ noun heyl-fel-oh; adjective heyl-fel-oh ]

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

adjective
  1. sociable; heartily genial: His hail-fellow manner helped him to advance in the sales force.

Origin of hail-fellow

1
First recorded in 1570–80

Words Nearby hail-fellow

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How to use hail-fellow in a sentence

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

    The Heir of Redclyffe | Charlotte M. Yonge
  • And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

    Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Cf. the use of the phrase "to be hail-fellow-well-met with anyone."

    Narcissus | Unknown
  • Some waved greeting to Jack Fyfe, and he waved back in the hail-fellow fashion of the camps.

    Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • Mr. Clavering is fastidious, and will not feel honored by the attentions of one who is hail-fellow-well-met with everybody.

    The Leavenworth Case | Anna Katherine Green