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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



... and for Professor E. H. Palmer, who had been very kind to them, were as naive as amiable. I have observed that some Gipsies of the more rustic sort loved to listen to stories, but, like children, they preferred those which they had heard several times and learned to like. They knew where the laugh ought to come in. The Gipsy is both bad and good, but neither his faults nor his virtues are exactly what they are supposed to be. He is certainly something of a scamp—and, nomen est omen, there is a tribe of Scamps among them—but ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith

... their beds to them. Instead, he climbed upon the mountain of feathers, laughing at the joke on his would-be-tormentors and slept comfortably all night while they had to spend the night on hard boards. He loved to tell this story of how the laugh ...
— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

... tongues mingled with the clink of glasses and floated through strata of smoke from the burning weeds of a hundred planets. From one of the tables, voices rise in mild disagreement. There is a jeering laugh from one side and a roar of anger from the other. Two men rise and face one another ready to follow their insults with violence. Before the eruption can start, a mercenary steps forward on lithe feet and lightly catches the back-swung arm, a quick hand removes the poised glass before it can ...
— History Repeats • George Oliver Smith

... Hold, my readers don't know Latin; but can you help laughing, my friends? Laugh, then, at the Southern nabob, with twenty fat slaves in his kitchen,—laugh well at him, for there is cause enough; then come ...
— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... from their day's fevered labors. But it was the light in their eyes, their grinning faces, the buoyancy of their gait that held him. He heard their voices lifted in such a tone as would have seemed impossible only a few days ago. The loud, harsh laugh, accompanying inconsequent jests and jibes, it was good to hear. These men were tasting the sweets of a moment of perfect happiness. Buck knew well enough that soon, probably by the morrow, the moment would have passed, and they would have settled again ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum


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