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单词 hypergelast
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hypergelastn.

/hʌɪˈpəːdʒiːlast/
Etymology: < hyper- prefix 2a + Greek γελαστής a laugher, < γελᾶν to laugh; compare gelastic adj.
(See quot. 1877.)
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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).
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