Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A man or boy; a fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. Eye dialect spelling of fellow.
- n. informal used to address a male
WordNet 3.0
- n. a boy or man
Etymologies
- From English fellow. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fellow, of course, changes to the American fella or feller, as in Rosie hat schon a fella (= Rosie has got a fella, i. e., a sweetheart).”
“According to AP, the sad little fella is continually rebooting itself for no apparent reason.”
“Wow, the little fella is still ranting about corpseman, hey who else was ranting about that? dr. runt??????”
“Libs, the Donahue fella is ressurrecting the same talking points to get a rise out of everyone.”
Think Progress » DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’
“Poor old fella is forgetting his policy positions.”
Think Progress » The death of a maverick: John McCain backtracks on nuclear policy.
“This fella is really talented ... check out his pencils and sketches.”
“Hummers always make me wonder what a fella is trying to compensate for ... the jeep is the original git-er-done vehicle.”
“• Despite Marvel's ban on smoking in its comic books, Wolverine manages to inspire Boxwish's list of the top five cigar-smoking action heroes: "Certainly, the trend has suffered in recent decades due to the anti-smoking movement, yet some secret smokers still manage to sneak under the radar and one such fella is back on the big screen – Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
“That Michael Steele fella is just a prop. Claudia, Houston, Tx”
“Not Narnia, exactly, because the fella is gone, and what he left us is what he left us.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fella’.
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Fellowship
A list where words can mingle with their fellows. Feel free to add any fellas and fellers.
fellow, fellowship, bedfellow, strange bedfellows, Robin Goodfellow, fellow-traveler, research fellow, Odd Fellows, Oddfellows, oddfellows, Oddfellows Hall, The Order of Patr... and 41 more...
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Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words
Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
pwned, craptacular, embiggen, phwoar, dealie-bob, doojiggy, bootylicious, craptastic, ^_^, π, oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ti..., gustnado and 326 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Friends
homeboy, homie, friend, buddy, bro, dude, brother, dawg, pal, bff, girl, mate and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fella.
chained_bear Hey, fella... Jan 31, 2007