hail-fellow

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. heartily friendly and congenialSynonyms: comradelyhail-fellow-well-metOpposite unfriendlySimilar friendly
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Hail′-fel′low (-fĕl′lō), noun

An intimate companion.

Hail-fellow well met.— John Lyly

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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