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hail-fellow-well-met

hail-fellow-well-met adjective: sociable, friendly. Also the alternative spelling of hail fellow well met.

Adjective

hail-fellow-well-met (not comparable)

  1. 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.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...
    • 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;....

Also used as

hail-fellow-well-met is also the alternative spelling of hail fellow well met.

Forms of hail-fellow-well-met

pluralhail-fellow-well-mets
pluralhail-fellows-well-met

Questions about hail-fellow-well-met

What does hail-fellow-well-met mean?
Hail-fellow-well-met means sociable, friendly.
What part of speech is hail-fellow-well-met?
Hail-fellow-well-met is an adjective.

Words near hail-fellow-well-met in the dictionary

  1. hail storms
  2. hail sugar
  3. hail sugars
  4. hail'd
  5. hail-fellow
  6. hail-fellow-well-met
  7. hail-fellow-well-mets
  8. hail-fellows
  9. hail-fellows-well-met
  10. hail-shot
  11. hailable

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