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afterclap

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/12/12 03:40 UTC 版)

発音

• IPA: /ˈæftə(ɹ)klæp/, (trap–bath split) /ˈɑːftə(ɹ)klæp/

名詞

afterclap (plural afterclaps)

1. (archaic) An additional adverse event that occurs unexpectedly after an earlier one was thought to be over and done with.
2. (archaic) An unfavourable turn of events following a favourable situation; an eventuality for which one ought to be prepared.
   Synonyms: calamity, disaster, peril, reversal, setback
   • 1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd ed., Volume I, p. 7,
     May you all live to see Troy out,
     And when you’ve storm’d the Trojan gaps,
     May you escape all after-claps.
3. The consequence (often, but not always, adverse) of an action or event.
   Synonyms: outcome, repercussion, reverberation, upshot
   • 1753, uncredited translator, The School of Man, London: Lockyer Davis, 2nd ed., pp. 102-103,
     […] he loves Pleasure; but then, without any Afterclap; fain would he be gathering Roses, but he’s afraid of the Prickles.
   • 1891, Grover Cleveland, letter to William Freeman Vilas in Allan Nevins (ed.), Letters of Grover Cleveland, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933, p. 244,
     My notion is that the Senatorial result in this State is the best that could have been attained. I am not sure about the after-clap, but I think quieter politics in this State will result.
   • 1926, Alice Dunbar Nelson, diary entry, in Gloria T. Hull (ed.), Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, New York: Norton, 1984, p. 196,
     Seems like no matter where I go, if I have a pleasant time, there is always a nasty afterclap of bad checks following me.
4. A phenomenon occurring after a similar earlier one; a later manifestation of something.
   Synonym: echo
   • 1891, Elizabeth Gilbert Martin (translator), Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur-Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand, New York: Scribner, 1891, Chapter 4, p. 32,
     The drama of the Revolution is not French alone; it is European. It has its afterclap in every empire, in every kingdom, even to the most distant lands.
5. A sound that follows another, especially a loud noise, such as thunder.
   Synonym: echo
6. A symptom of an illness, especially one that appears after the initial onset; an illness or symptom caused by exposure to a substance, an injury, etc.
   Synonyms: sequela, side-effect, symptom
7. (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Urethral discharge as a symptom of gonorrhea.
   Synonym: gleet
   • 1877, William Morgan, Contagious Diseases, London: The Homœopathic Publishing Company, Part 1, p. 35,
     […] the fourth stage of the complaint, known as a “gleet,” or afterclap.
8. (obsolete) A change or attempted change to an agreement after it has been entered into; an additional charge (especially one over and above the previously agreed-upon price).
   • 1780, William Cowper, letter to William Unwin in William Hayley (ed.), The Life and Letters of William Cowper, London: J. Johnson, 1812, p. 293,
     I shall charge you a halfpenny apiece for every copy I send you, the short as well as the long. This is a sort of afterclap you little expected, but I cannot possibly afford them at a cheaper rate.
   • 1835, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, “The Horse Swap” in Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., Augusta, GA: S. R. Sentinel, p. 28,
     “Now,” said Blossom, as he handed Peter the three dollars, “I’m a man, that when he makes a bad trade, makes the most of it until he can make a better. I’m for no rues and after-claps.”
     “That’s just my way,” said Peter; “I never goes to law to mend my bargains.”
9. (humorous) A child born after the one that was intended to be the last.
10. (slang, obsolete) A sweet food, drink, or tobacco product consumed at the end of a meal.
    Synonyms: dessert, digestif

• 1936, Fulton Oursler (as Anthony Abbot), Murder of a Startled Lady, London: Collins, Chapter 7, p. 272,
  […] we went on in silence to partake of this never-to-be-forgotten luncheon […] and, as a fitting after-clap, a liqueur from Avignon,

名詞

afterclap (plural afterclaps)

1. (South Africa, historical) A canvas curtain or tailboard at the rear of a covered wagon.
   Coordinate term: foreclap
   • 1905, Reginald Fenton, A Peculiar People in a Pleasant Land, Girard, KS: The Pretoria Publishing Company, Chapter 7, p. 98,
     […] he felt for his gun, and began fumbling at the fastenings of the afterclap.

参照

1. ^ Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper, 1785: “AFTERCLAP, a demand after the first given in has been discharged, a charge for pretended omissions.”
2. ^ John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, London, “AFTERCLAP, (American).―An attempt to unjustly extort more in a bargain or agreement than at first settled upon.”
3. ^ H. L. Mencken, The American Language, New York Knopf, 1948, p. 208: “afterclap, a child born long after its siblings;”
4. ^ Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 5: “afterclap: The tailboard or the canvas flap at the rear of the tent […] of a covered wagon.”

after-clap

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2015/12/25 11:09 UTC 版)

名詞

after-clap ‎(複数形 after-claps)

1. 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 9781443755863) 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.

参照

• The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)

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