FAQs About the word glad-hander

Handshaker

to extend a glad hand to, a warm welcome or greeting often prompted by ulterior reasons, to extend a glad hand

Extrovert,extrovert,backslapper,exhibitionist,show off

introvert,wallflower,A shrinking violet

glades => glades, gladdens => gladdens, glad rags => Sunday best, giving way (to) => give way (to), giving way => giving way,