Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Heartily friendly and congenial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intimate companion; a pleasant or genial companion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An intimate companion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An intimate companion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective heartily friendly and congenial
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I met their gazes and tried to shoot a casual hail-fellow kind of look.
Long Way Home Laura Caldwell 2010
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The very lack now of hail-fellow chumminess is, frankly, very odd.
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There was none of the usual hail-fellow cordiality that I had encountered in my previous meetings with politicians.
Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010
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The very lack now of hail-fellow chumminess is, frankly, very odd.
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He had a hail-fellow manner that some passengers adopt in the company of pilots.
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash Langewiesche, William 2009
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Still, beneath a hail-fellow manner, Bush has a defensive edge, a don't-tread-on-me prickliness.
Bush in the Bubble 2007
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A snippet of the article:When things go bad for a client--and we're talking off the cliff--the respectable barrister known for his or her brilliant transactional mind, hail-fellow connections and Ivy League charm may have to bring in a different type of attorney.
02/10/2007 2007
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Rogers delighted Clemens by treating him with bluff hail-fellow humor, the sort that Howells always reached for but never quite managed to pull off.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Rogers delighted Clemens by treating him with bluff hail-fellow humor, the sort that Howells always reached for but never quite managed to pull off.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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At eight in the morning, we go in dishabille to the Pump-room which is crowded like a Welsh fair; and there you see the highest quality, and the lowest trades folks, jostling each other, without ceremony, hail-fellow well-met.
Gammerstang commented on the word hail-fellow
(interjection/adjective) - An expression of intimacy. To be hail-fellow with anyone, to be on such a footing as to greet him with "hail-fellow" at meeting. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
February 7, 2018