单词 | hail-fellow |
释义 | hail-fellowadj.adv.n. 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. 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). < adj.adv.n.1577 |
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