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hail-fellow-well-met en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Sociable, friendly.
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 of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."
And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Hear of the ‘Red Fox’”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 108:N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publications edition, →ISBN, page 22,
Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all;
Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
hail-fellow-well-met en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) 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.
2003, James Patterson, Peter De Jonge, chapter 17, in Beach House, Warner Books, →ISBN:
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