| 单词 | back-slapping | 
| 释义 | back-slappingadj.n.  Slapping the back. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > 			[adjective]		 > affable > hearty > back-slapping back-slapping1777 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > 			[noun]		 > quality of being agreeable or affable > agreeable person > vigorously hearty person > act of slapping the back back-slapping1960 1777    Twining in  Country Clergym. 18th C. 		(1882)	 50  				A brisk, noisy, back-slapping new man. 1884    E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. v. 186  				A..good-natured vulgarian, of a dreadful back-slapping, Christian-name calling familiarity. 1920    S. Lewis Main St. xxviii. §6  				Isn't the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that passes for humor here? 1946    Scrutiny XIV. 155  				The blustering, hearty, back-slapping manner..is the reverse of the discreet, self-effacing and seemly behaviour which one has a right to expect of a good undertaker. 1960    J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. vii. 77  				There were, to be true, wild jumps of elation and much back-slapping. Derivatives  back-slap  v.				 [as a back-formation.]			 ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable			[verb (intransitive)]		 > act in agreeable spirit > indulge in back-slapping back-slap1935 1935    S. Lewis It can't happen Here ix. 90  				He grinned and knee-patted and back-slapped.   back-slapper  n. a vigorously hearty person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > 			[noun]		 > quality of being agreeable or affable > agreeable person > vigorously hearty person hearty1915 back-slapper1924 1924    Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 23/1 		(heading)	  				Here's a Comic Piece About a Back-Slapper. 1929    Evening News 4 Jan. 9/4  				The back-slappers, the rib-diggers, the over hearty and the dwellers-in-the-limelight are to be avoided. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < | 
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