goodfellowhoodn.
/ˈɡʊdˌfɛləʊhʊd/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdˌfɛloʊˌhʊd/ rare.
= good fellowship n.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun]
mirthOE
joyc1275
jollitya1300
joy-makingc1330
good fellowship?c1430
wine and womena1450
junketing1555
merrymake1579
gaiety1612
jovialty1621
joviality1626
mirth-making1638
jovialness1658
jollitry?c1685
goodfellowhood1716
merrymaking1779
conviviality1791
jollification1818
making-merry1823
carnivalizing1841
skite1869
Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885
balling1942
1716 E. Baynard Health 12 Mak's the Spirits brisk, and good, After a bad Good-fellow-Hood. Their spingy Parts, are quite unfurl'd.
1845 R. Stuart On Hist. & Art of Warming & Ventilating Rooms I. vii. 193 A Lord of the Manor..who has left a record of his good-fellowhood on the large oaken carved beam that supports the chimney piece.
1906 Nation 14 June 492/2 There is that mixture of high culture and fineness with roistering goodfellowhood and healthy largeness of utterance even to coarseness, characteristic of a man whose life had bridged the gap from Peninsular to early and mid-Victorian days.
1975 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 15 June b3/1 Such reassuring geniality and bluff regular-guy good fellowhood that he could probably be elected in a landslide.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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