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laugher
English
Etymology
laugh +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?f?, läf? IPA(key): /?læf?/, /?l??f?/
- (US) enPR: l?f? IPA(key): /?læf?/
- Rhymes: -æf?(r), Rhymes: -??f?(?)
Noun
laugher (plural laughers)
- One who laughs.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book III, Chapter XXV, page 309
- He and his companions […] were exchanging jokes with that sort of ostentatious laughter which implies a desire to prove that the laugher is not mortified though some people might suspect it.
- 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects (page 119)
- These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book III, Chapter XXV, page 309
- A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Related terms
- laugh
- laughingly
- laughter
Translations
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laughen
English
Verb
laughen
- obsolete past participle of laugh.
Anagrams
- Hangeul, han-geul, hangeul
Middle English
Alternative forms
- (Early ME) lahh?henn, lih?en, leh?en, lahhen, lauhwen
- laughe, laghe, laghen, lawen, leigh, leygh, lei?e, ley?e, lau?e, lau?he, law?e, ly?he, lau?en, lau?when, leigh?en, lawhyn
Etymology
From Old English hlæhhan, alternative form of hlehhan, hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjan?.
Pronunciation
- (primarily Early ME) IPA(key): /?lax?n/, /?l?x?n/
- IPA(key): /?lau?x?n/, /?l?i?x?n/, /?li?x?n/
Verb
laughen
- To laugh; to break out in laughter or laughing.
- To express glee or joyfulness; to show happiness.
- (usually with a preposition) To reminisce about; to remember with affection.
- (rare) To laugh about an incident or thing.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- laughter
- lawghynge
Descendants
- English: laugh
- Scots: lauch
- Yola: leeigh
References
- “laughen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.
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