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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
laugh·ing       [laf-ing, lah-fing] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
2.uttering sounds like human laughter, as some birds.
3.suggesting laughter by brightness, color, sound, etc.: a laughing stream; laughing flowers.
4.laughable: The increase in crime is no laughing matter.
–noun
5.laughter.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME; see laugh, -ing1, -ing2]

—Related forms
laugh·ing·ly, adverb
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laugh       (lāf, läf)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   laughed, laugh·ing, laughs

v.   intr.
  1. To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
  2. To show or feel amusement or good humor: an experience we would laugh about later on.
    1. To feel or express derision or contempt; mock: I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
    2. To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being: You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
  4. To produce sounds resembling laughter: parrots laughing and chattering in the trees.

v.   tr.
  1. To affect or influence by laughter: laughed the speaker off the stage; laughed the proposal down.
  2. To say with a laugh: He laughed his delight at the victory.

n.  
    1. The act of laughing.
    2. The sound of laughing; laughter.
  2. Informal Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke: The solution they recommended was a laugh.
  3. Informal Fun; amusement. Often used in the plural: went along just for laughs.

Phrasal Verb(s):
laugh at
To treat lightly; scoff at: a daredevil who laughed at danger.
laugh off/away
To dismiss as ridiculously or laughably trivial: laughed off any suggestion that her career was over.

Idiom(s):
laugh out of the other side of (one's) mouth
To see one's good fortune turn to bad; suffer a humbling reversal.

Idiom(s):
laugh up/in (one's) sleeve
To rejoice or exult in secret, as at another's error or defeat.

[Middle English laughen, from Old English hlæhhan, probably ultimately of imitative origin.]

laugh'er n., laugh'ing·ly adv.
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laughing

adjective
showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Laughing

Laugh"ing\, a. & n. from Laugh, v. i.

Laughing falcon (Zo["o]l.), a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing.

Laughing gas (Chem.), hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It is much used as an an[ae]sthetic agent.

Laughing goose (Zo["o]l.), the European white-fronted goose.

Laughing gull. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.

Laughing hyena (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena.

Laughing jackass (Zo["o]l.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera.

Laughing owl (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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