hail-fellow
Also hail fellow, hail-fellow well met . a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
sociable; heartily genial: His hail-fellow manner helped him to advance in the sales force.
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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. YongeAnd 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 StevensonCf. the use of the phrase "to be hail-fellow-well-met with anyone."
Narcissus | UnknownSome waved greeting to Jack Fyfe, and he waved back in the hail-fellow fashion of the camps.
Big Timber | Bertrand W. SinclairMr. 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
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