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Laugh   /læf/   Listen
Laugh

verb
(past & past part. laughed; pres. part. laughing)
1.
Produce laughter.  Synonyms: express joy, express mirth.
noun
1.
The sound of laughing.  Synonym: laughter.
2.
A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing.
3.
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.  Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke.  "He knows a million gags" , "Thanks for the laugh" , "He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest" , "Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"



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"Laugh" Quotes from Famous Books



... but I do not seem to understand," said the man, with so much bewilderment in his manner that Sylvia longed to laugh, but managed to pull herself together and to maintain a ...
— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant
... a dense crowd of excited men. In the shaded balconies beautiful women were watching; and on the streets there was the constant chatter of gaudily turbaned negresses, and the rollicking guffaws of the darkies, who had nothing to do but laugh and be merry. ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... lads looked at each other and laughed, and there was immense relief in Robert's laugh. Only now did he admit to himself that he had been terribly alarmed about Tayoga, and he recognized the enormous relief he felt when the Onondaga ...
— The Rulers of the Lakes - A Story of George and Champlain • Joseph A. Altsheler
... and passed him to ride on ahead of the Signal Company. Never before had I so wished my engine to turn more slowly. It seemed a shame that we motor-cyclists should head the retreat of our little column. I could not understand how the men could laugh and joke. It was blasphemous. They ought to be cursing with angry faces,—at the least, to ...
— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson
... faces. They all stopped for a moment in the doorway to allow Father Orin to shake hands with Peter Cartwright. The young preacher had been delayed on his way, and was just now entering the court-house. He did not smile when the priest said something which made the others laugh. His square jaw was grimly set, and his fiery black eyes looked over the heads of the crowd at the tall figure of General Jackson which towered above every one else in the court room, with the exception of the attorney-general. These two great lawyers still stood absorbed in low-toned ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks


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