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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

belaugh en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English belahhen, beliȝen, from Old English behlehhan, behliehhan (“to deride, exult over”), equivalent to be- + laugh. Cognate with German belachen (“to laugh at”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To laugh about; laugh over; laugh at.
    • One step out of, one step into, our homes, our hearts, and accepted truth falls before the laughter and questing of positively revolting women belaughing our way through the wilderness of women's wildness, through the curiosity of Sarasvati, into the answers we need, the answers we know, the daughter-right of our births. 2000, Laughing Womyn Ashonosheni, Whispers of Our Knowings:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
belaughing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
belaughs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
belaughed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
belaughed Tense=Past lexicographic