hail-fellow
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hail-fellow
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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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
Unlike hail-fellow Tom Harmon, he is incapable of calling everybody on campus by his first name.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was young and energetic—he had a certain breezy geniality of manner, and was very much hail-fellow well-met with all classes.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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