fellow n.
1. constr. with a, oneself, e.g. a fellow ought to get drunk once in a while.
![]() | Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome II 42: Such bl-st-d roads will make a fellow crazy! | |
![]() | High Life in N.Y. I 37: A noise that was enough to make a feller’s teeth jump out of his head. | |
![]() | Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 270: It’s deuced hard that when a fellow’s really trying to do what he ought, his best friends’ll do nothing but chaff him. | |
![]() | Civil War Letters 16 Aug. 102: We have had full accounts of the procedings [sic] of the mob in New York, and its almost enough to make a fellow ashamed of being a Yorker. | in|
![]() | Old Hunks in Darkey Drama 5 44: If it was on’y a grocery now [...] a fellow could collar de stock! | |
![]() | Girl in the Brown Habit I 15: It makes a fellow long for a real good bit of stuff. | |
![]() | Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 86: Just you shut up now, and let a fellow go to sleep. | |
![]() | Harry The Cockney 159: Can’t you listen to a fellow when he is talking sense? | |
![]() | Front Page 61: Jesus! Why didn’t you tell a fellow! | |
![]() | Grapes of Wrath (1951) 344: A fella got to eat. | |
![]() | Billy Bunter at Butlins 83: I say, you fellows, don’t hike off while a fellow’s talking to you! |
2. a person, male or female.
![]() | Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 264: Sally found you a second-hand stool, sir [...] She’s a rare fellow at a bargain, I can tell you. | |
![]() | Wild Boys of London I 151/1: Ikey Bob was good at kicking, and, having on a thick boot with a toe-plate, he punished a fellow’s shins to any extent. | |
![]() | Dundee, Perth [,,,] People’s Jrnl 6 Aug. 3/5: ‘Violet’ talks of ‘fellows’ and it sounds decidedly vulgar. | |
![]() | Thicker ’n Thieves 269: ‘Had no idea she was a whore. Every time I came to town after that, I’d look her up and go out with her. I thought she was a swell fellow’. | |
![]() | Doing Time 111: I did a few years with him, and he’s a top fella. |
3. (also felly) one’s husband or regular male partner.
![]() | Lantern (N.O.) 9 July 3: My feller tells me that Watermeyer [...] is looking for a fuss. | |
![]() | Autobiog. of a Thief 59: I was Mamie’s first ‘fellow’. | |
![]() | Kipps (1952) 51: It is not quite the thing to walk abroad with a ‘feller’, much more to ‘spoon’ with him. | |
![]() | Job 30: They seemed alternately third-rate stenographers, and very haughty urbanites who knew all about ‘fellows,’ and ‘shows’ and ‘glad rags’ . | |
![]() | Shearer’s Colt 125: I know the little felly. | |
![]() | Eve. Standard mag. 23 Feb. 42: My fella was impressing me, picking winners and accumulating wodges of crumpled fivers. |
4. (US gay) a lesbian.
![]() | Cross of Lassitude 103: I can walk in silk stockings if I want – it don’t make me any less a feller! | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 70: any gay woman [...] fellow. |
5. (US gay) an effeminate homosexual.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 73: stereotype effeminate homosexual [...] fellow (hetero sl). |
In compounds
(UK und.) a receiver.
![]() | Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 4: Fellow over the wall: receiver of stolen property. |
(UK und.) a senior officer of the C.I.D.
![]() | Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 5: Headfellow: C.I.D. Inspector in Charge. |