agelast

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One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic.

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  1. One who never laughs. [Rare.] Men whom Rabelais would have called agelasts, or non-laughers. London Times, Feb. 5, 1877. (N. E. D.)

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  • One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic. —  Chortle News RSS
 

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  1. from Greek ἀγίλαστος, not laughing, from ἀ- privative + γελαστός, verbal adjective of γελᾱν, laugh.
 

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