hail-fellow

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

/ noun ˈheɪlˈfɛl oʊ; adjective ˈheɪlˌfɛl oʊ /

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noun

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

adjective

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

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Origin of hail-fellow

First recorded in 1570–80

Words nearby hail-fellow

haikwan tael, hail, Hail Columbia, Haile Selassie, Haile Selassie I, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, hail from, hailing distance, Hail Mary, Hailsham of St Marylebone

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