Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of divination drawn from laughter, or a method of ascertaining the qualities and character of a person from observation of his way of laughing.
Wiktionary
- n. rare Divination by means of laughter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by means of laughter.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Logolepsy
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
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I didn't know there was a word for that!
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Potpourri
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There's a word for that?
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Words to use at the Joynt
obstreperous, calibogus, ouzo, pitcher-man, arfarfanarf, drunkensides, pyrogenesis, amphiboly, gobemouche, cacoethes, slubberdegullion, diplopic and 107 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
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Laffterglow
HA, HA.
chortle, manlaughter, snicker, guffaw, snort, chuckle, titter, giggle, laugh, gelastic, snigger, har-de-har and 60 more...
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religous
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Tweets
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fbharjo grin-zen Sep 1, 2011
oroboros It would be fun if this word had a connection to:
"He had a broad face and a little round belly,
that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly." Mar 15, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM is becoming a gelotologist and specialising in geloscopy, just for the fun of it. Feb 1, 2009
whichbe Fortune-telling by means of laughter. May 13, 2008