Dictionary

laughy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɑːfi/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈlæ.fi/

Etymology

From laugh + -y.

Meanings

1. Causing laughter; comical.
   • Oh, he’s the laughy boy, sir, wherever he is, God bless him! 1864, Rosa Mulholland, ““Good-night, Shag”” (chapter XXVIII), in Dunmara; republished in Matthew Russell, editor, The Irish Monthly, volume 33, 1905, page 635:
   • Then Buggy found himself doing something he hadn’t done in a long time: He started to laugh. At first, he thought it was the laughy-gas taking effect, but then he realized it was something else. He realized that what he was witnessing was actually pretty funny. 2015, Carlton Mellick III, ClownFellas: Tales of the Binzo Family, Random House Publishing Group, unnumbered page:
   • Now he was all for joining immediately, since neither of them saw any point in the unpleasant school or in the laughy, crinkly-haired headmaster whose only concern appeared to be that cannabis should not be smoked in the lavatories. 1973, William Trevor, Elizabeth Alone; republished by Penguin Books Limited, 2015, unnumbered page:
   • Tomorrow, the men of Wilco[…]will fly to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, before playing a few dates in Spain and Portugal in support of Wilco (the album), their laughiest disc to date. The album’s cover features a camel standing on a sunny roof next to a table with a cake on it set for six, which could easily be read as symbolic of the sweet life the band is now enjoying after wandering a desert of tough times, or it could be symbolic of absolutely nothing. Either way: laughy. Even laughier, the record opens with a winking, clamoring boogie called “Wilco (the song),” in which Tweedy advises, “Tired of being exposed to the cold? / …Put on your headphones before you explode / Wilco will love you, baby.” 2009 August, Jon Dolan, “Wilco, Frankly.”, in Doug Brod, editor, SPIN, volume 25, number 8, page 56:
   • “They’d—oose—to be—tar-ri-ble—boy-ish—when—I—know’d—’em.” One of the laughy gurgles came after the words, like one that had been separated from its companions. (Can we date this quote?), Robert Lowell, “A Sad Young Heart” (chapter XII), in The New Priest in Conception Bay, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1889, page 109:

Forms

Deriveds

laughy gas