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laughter(1) (iou)



laughter noun1.

The action of laughing, the sound of laughing. Also, a person's manner of laughing. OE.
HOMERIC laughter. rock with laughter: see ROCK verb1.
R. P. Jhabvala He made another joke whereupon they dissolved in relieved laughter.
b. An instance of this; a laugh. Now rare. OE.
Goldsmith They broke out into a laughter for four or five several times successively.
A subject for laughter. poet. L16.
Shakespeare 1 Henry IV Argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
Comb.: laughter-line any of the small wrinkles at the corners of the eyes or mouth supposedly formed by years of intermittent laughter.
laughterless adjective E19.