hail-fellow-well-met
genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way: a hail-fellow-well-met slap on the back
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How to use hail-fellow-well-met 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 | UnknownMr. 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 GreenShe is from Cagliari—and can't do much with the cabbage soup: and tells the waiter so, in her deep, hail-fellow-well-met voice.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
Cultural definitions for hail-fellow-well-met
A term describing a person who is superficially friendly and is always trying to gain friends. Such a person may also be referred to as a “glad-hander.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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