laugh

Forms

1.Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
- Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.
- Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
2.A fun person.
3.An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
- His deep laughs boomed through the room.
- And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
- It never fails to get a laugh. Here's to more humor in chess.

1.To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
- There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
- If life seems jolly rotten / There's something you've forgotten / And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
2.To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
- Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
3.To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
4.To express by, or utter with, laughter.
- Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.
- "You refuse to take me seriously," Lute said, when she had laughed her appreciation. "How can I take that Planchette rigmarole seriously?"

Common· #869

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *klek-

Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną

Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan

Old English hliehhander.

Old English hlæhhan

Middle English laughen, laghen

English laugh