What does hail-fellow-well-met mean?
Hail-fellow-well-met means Sociable, friendly..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Sociable, friendly..
N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60, "You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."
And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.
Use hail-fellow-well-met when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hail-fellow-well-met means Sociable, friendly..
Common synonyms include friendly, comradely, hail-fellow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
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