Etymograph

English

slapback

From slap + back.

A compound of slap + back

Middle English slappen

English slap

Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’

Proto-West Germanic *bak

Old English bæc

Middle English bak ‘the back’

English back

Today it means

noun A kind of doubling echo with relatively long delay between repetitions of the sound, so that the individual echoes can be perceived.

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