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hail-fellows-well-met

hail-fellows-well-met is the plural of hail-fellow-well-met.

Meaning 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...

Questions about hail-fellows-well-met

What is hail-fellows-well-met the plural of?
Hail-fellows-well-met is the plural of hail-fellow-well-met.

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

  1. hail'd
  2. hail-fellow
  3. hail-fellow-well-met
  4. hail-fellow-well-mets
  5. hail-fellows
  6. hail-fellows-well-met
  7. hail-shot
  8. hailable
  9. Hailaerh
  10. Hailakandi
  11. Hailam

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