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单词 hail-fellow
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hail-fellowadj.adv.n.

Etymology: The familiar greeting or accost ‘Hail, fellow!’ (now obsolete or archaic), used as a descriptive expression, in various grammatical constructions.1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A2 Their best louers, would bee much discontented, with the collation of contraries, if I should write ouer al their heads, Haile fellow well met.
A. adj.
a. On such terms, or using such freedom with another, as to accost him with ‘hail, fellow!’; on a most intimate footing; over familiar or unduly intimate.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > intimate or familiar > on a most intimate footing or over-familiar
hail-mate1577
hail-fellow1580
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 77 Where diddest thou learne that..being suffered to be familiar thou shouldest waxe haile fellowe?
1694 Ld. Delamere Wks. 26 Let not your Servants be over-familiar or haile fellow with you.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. ii. 37 All's hail fellow, here.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. ii. 20 He crossed the room to her..with something of a hail-fellow bearing.
b. So the fuller phrase hail fellow well met.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > intimately or familiarly > on very intimate terms
just1565
hail fellow well met1577
au mieux1795
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 114/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I [He] placed himselfe..hard at the Earle of Ormonde his elbow, as though hee were haile fellow, well met.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 171 The maister ..being as you say haile fellow well met with his servant.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 463 Gentlemen will be haile fellow well met with Jesters.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch I. i. 4 He was popular..though not in any hail-fellow-well-met kind of way.
1888 Graphic Summer No. 12/3 His hail-good-fellow-well-met shake of the hand.
B. adv.
On most intimate terms.
Π
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 74 The Multitude did not go hail fellow well met with him.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 77 You see the highest quality, and the lowest trades folks, jostling each other, without ceremony, hail-fellow well-met.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. (1876) 91 Palavering rascals, who come, hail-fellow-well-met.
C. n. Obsolete.
1. An intimate or familiar associate.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > close or intimate friend
belamy?c1225
friarc1290
specialc1300
necessaryc1384
familiar?c1400
great frienda1425
gossea1549
particular1577
shopfellow?1577
cockmate1578
privado1584
bosom friend1590
better half1596
ingle1602
inward1607
bully boy1609
bosom-piecea1625
hail-fellow1650
bosom-bird1655
intimate1660
crony1665
intimado1682
chum1684
friend of one's bosom1712
right bower1829
inquaintancea1834
cad1836
chummy1849
bond-friend1860
raggie1901
bosom1913
aceboy1951
boon coon1951
mellow1967
squeeze1980
acegirl2009
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 36 It brings men, now hail-fellows with God.
2. The state or footing of intimate friends.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > state or footing of intimate friends
hail-fellow1684
1684 J. Goodman Winter-evening Conf. i. 46 The Master and Servant are at Hail Fellow.
a1687 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 107 This Youth hail Fellow with me made.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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