hail-fellow-well-met

adj 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

Sociable, friendly.

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....

noun

Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person.

My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Collocations

ADJ.

all, opposite, small

VERB + HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET + NOUN

sheamus

PREP.

with

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Synonyms

adjective — heartily friendly and congenial

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

Wiktionary

N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....

Wiktionary

N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60, "You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant

Wiktionary

My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.

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