单词 | hypergelast |
释义 | hypergelastn. (See quot. 1877.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > one who laughs > excessively hypergelast1877 1877 G. Meredith Ess. Comedy in New Q. Mag. 8 2 We have another class of men..whom we may term hypergelasts; the excessive laughers. 1902 Times Weekly Educ. Suppl. 19 Dec. p. ii/2 As to the savage, he is a great laugher—a hypergelast, in fact. 1933 Scrutiny I. 356 Meredith's hypergelasts are enemies of the Comic spirit, but his ideal audience all laugh, in their polite drawing-room way. 1947 N. Cardus Autobiogr. i. 47 The word ‘hypergelast’..denoting the loud vacant laughers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1877 |
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