hail-fellow

English

Alternative forms

hailfellow

Noun

hail-fellow (plural hail-fellows)

  1. An intimate companion.
    • 1580, John Lyly, Euphues and His England
      that being forbidden to be bold thou shouldst grow impudent, or being suffered to be familiar thou shouldst wax hail-fellow?.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hail-fellow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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