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
But Gaitskell is no hail-fellow well-met among the horny-handed men of Britain's labor unions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their publisher began as a hail-fellow who fraternized with the backshop boys, helped his mailers bundle papers, plowed fat profits into employee beneficiary funds.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is hail-fellow well met, or not met at all.
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge
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