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laughingstock en · NOUN

Etymology

From laughing + stock.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
    • Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family. 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, pages 295–296:

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