good-fellow

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GOOD-FEL'LOW, noun A jolly companion. [This is hardly to be admitted as a compound word.] GOOD-FEL'LOW, verb transitive To make a jolly companion; to besot. [Little used.]
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