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单词 hypergelast
释义 hypergelast|haɪˈpɜːdʒiːlæst|
[f. hyper- 4 + Gr. γελαστής a laugher, f. γελᾶν to laugh; cf. gelastic a.]
(See quot. 1877.)
1877G. Meredith Ess. Comedy in New Q. Mag. VIII. 2 We have another class of men..whom we may term hypergelasts; the excessive laughers.1902Times Weekly Educ. Suppl. 19 Dec. p. ii/2 As to the savage, he is a great laugher—a hypergelast, in fact.1933Scrutiny I. 356 Meredith's hypergelasts are enemies of the Comic spirit, but his ideal audience all laugh, in their polite drawing-room way.1947N. Cardus Autobiogr. i. 47 The word ‘hypergelast’..denoting the loud vacant laughers.
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