hail-fellow-well-met
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, opposite, small
VERB + HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET
am
HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET + NOUN
sheamus
PREP.
with
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — heartily friendly and congenial
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
WiktionaryN.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;....
WiktionaryN.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
WiktionaryMy father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.
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