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Laughingstock   Listen
noun
Laughingstock  n.  An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. "When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Laughingstock" Quotes from Famous Books



... made a laughingstock, I gather," said his wife. "Heaven knows I've talked to her till I'm utterly worn out. She says she won't be bullied into even meeting the Prince, much less marrying him. I've never known her to be so pig-headed. Usually I can make her see things in a sensible way. She would have married ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... take long, however, before they shook off this impression. Some of them recognized a half-crazy shoemaker from Brescia among those who bore crosses, and immediately the whole mob through him became a laughingstock. Anyhow, it was something new, a distraction amid the everyday, and when the strangers marched toward the cathedral, everybody followed behind as they would have followed a band of jugglers ...
— Mogens and Other Stories - Mogens; The Plague At Bergamo; There Should Have Been Roses; Mrs. Fonss • Jens Peter Jacobsen



Words linked to "Laughingstock" :   April fool, stooge, butt



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