hail-fellow-well-met
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person.
Example Sentences
- "And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent."
- "N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publications 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.""
- "My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met."