hail-fellow-well-met

adjective

genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way
a hail-fellow-well-met slap on the back

A term describing a person who is superficially friendly and is always trying to gain friends. Such a person may also be referred to as a “ glad-hander .”

It could not be that Gordon, could it, with his hail-fellow-well-met manner?

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.

Cf. the use of the phrase "to be hail-fellow-well-met with anyone."

Mr. Clavering is fastidious, and will not feel honored by the attentions of one who is hail-fellow-well-met with everybody.

She is from Cagliari—and can't do much with the cabbage soup: and tells the waiter so, in her deep, hail-fellow-well-met voice.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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