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Hail-fellow-well-met   /heɪl-fˈɛloʊ-wɛl-mɛt/   Listen
Hail-fellow-well-met

adjective
1.
Heartily friendly and congenial.  Synonyms: comradely, hail-fellow.






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"Hail-fellow-well-met" Quotes from Famous Books



... The transformation may be effected by means of money, bonds etc., but it is none the less real on that account. Order, foresight and self-restraint are the intellectual conditions precedent of saving and capital. The childish and hail-fellow-well-met disposition which cares only for the present is inimical to it. True, the desire of saving can be developed only where there are legal guarantees to ownership;(293) guarantees which are both the conditions precedent and the effect of all economic civilization.(294) ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

... spur of adversity, he realised more and more how much goodness and strength of character lay hidden under the rough exterior and the sharp tongue, and his liking changed into an honest admiration. Mr. Smith was ponderous and egotistical to the last degree, while Spotts seemed hail-fellow-well-met, the jolliest, brightest, most good-looking and resourceful youth that Cecil had met for many a long day. The other two men were the most reserved of the company, saying little, and devoting themselves to their meal. But it was to Miss Arminster that he found himself ...
— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells

... automobile. He was a short man, with a stout stomach; his face was a deep red, with large, slightly bulging black eyes, tiny mustache over his full lips; and he was dressed immaculately and in good taste—a sort of Parisian-New Yorker, hail-fellow-well-met, a mixer, a cynic, a man about town. He swung his cane lightly as he tripped up the steps, sniffed the air, and knocked on the door ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

... voyage that year, and, as a matter of fact, every one had a warm spot somewhere in his heart for "that rascal Ike." For though he was admittedly a rogue, he was always such an amusing, hail-fellow-well-met rogue, and not the really mean type which every one dislikes. All the shore had heard of his dilemma, and, isolation not allowing one man to know what another is doing, indiscriminate charity had poured in upon poor Ike, without possibly doing him ...
— Labrador Days - Tales of the Sea Toilers • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell



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