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laugher en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • läfʹə (Received-Pronunciation)
  • lăfʹə (General-American)
  • /ˈlɑːfə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈlæfɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English lawȝar, lawher(e); equivalent to laugh + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who laughs.
    • 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. 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 309:
    • 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. 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119:
    • Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other. 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 251:
  2. A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
  3. A variety of the domestic pigeon.

Forms

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laughers Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

laughingly · laugh · laughter

Translations (3)

ar ضَاحِك (one who laughs) · fi nauraja (one who laughs) · eo ridanto (one who laughs)