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形容詞

helpy (comparative helpier or more helpy, superlative helpiest or most helpy)

1. (informal) Offering help; helpful, often in a way that is proactive or overly eager.
   • 1915, The Sentinel, volumes 5-9, page 3:

     John Fernandez, our helpiest helper, has charge of all the box-stalls, and he certainly does clean them thoroughly; from morning till night he stays with the job until he gets through when he says its through there is no earthly use of investigating, for it is.

   • 1977, Social Casework, volume 58, page 243:

     Social work clinicians and professors flocked there in droves to discuss the vagaries of human behavior, the latest fashions in intervention, the subtle impact of social policy on human well-being, and the ways social workers might influence both behavior and policy to produce a happier, "helpier" society.

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