after-clap
See also: afterclap
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]after-clap (plural after-claps)
- Alternative form of afterclap
- 1630–1680 (date of composition), 1759 (date of publication), Samuel Butler, Characters:
- What he loses by Venus he thinks to recover by Mercury, but catches his cure as an after-clap, that commonly proves the worse disease of the two.
- 1782, letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 January, 1782, published in The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: volume VII (John Bigelow, editor; →ISBN in 2008:
- Sir:—I have long feared that by our continually worrying the ministry here with successive after-clap demands for more and more money, we should at length tire out their patience.
- 1630–1680 (date of composition), 1759 (date of publication), Samuel Butler, Characters:
References
[edit]- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “After-clap”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.