A usage question - do you consider the term "fellows" to be inherently gendered?

i.e. would you read the sentence "some fellows were playing volleyball at the park this morning" to imply men were playing, or people the speaker considers fellow citizens / fellow volleyball fans / etc.?

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Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Eejit

One of the more famous Irish insults, an ‘Eejit’ is someone that’s foolish or someone that has done something foolish.

For example, ‘Yer man is some eejit – he stuck a load of petrol into the car and sure hasn’t it got a diesel engine!’.

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