my dear fellow en · NOUN
Meanings
- (informal) Term of address for a male friend.
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(informal) Used to express sympathy to a man.
The men said ‘My dear fellow,’ and did nothing.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198: