hail-fellow

American  

[heyl-fel-oh, heyl-fel-oh] / ˈheɪlˈfɛl oʊ, ˈheɪlˌfɛl oʊ /

noun

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

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adjective

1. sociable; heartily genial.

   His hail-fellow manner helped him to advance in the sales force.

Etymology

Origin of hail-fellow

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

They are "Hail, fellow, well met" with every Tom, Dick, or Harry that they come across.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

There, were many whose shillings had gone into his pocket to buy him meat and drink; but none who were now obtrusively Hail fellow well met! with him, on the strength of that assistance.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

They are "Hail fellow, well met," with one to-day, and cold and distant to-morrow.

From Life and Conduct by Lees, J. Cameron

After every dog he goes, and gives a sniff at him; and if the savour suit, he’s Hail, fellow, well met! with him the next minute.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Her grace of Northumberland sits at a window in Covent-garden, harangues the mob, and is "Hail, fellow, well met!"

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace