Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An object of jokes or ridicule; a butt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person or thing that is an object of ridicule; a butt for laughter or jokes.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of laughing stock.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a victim of ridicule or pranks
Etymologies
- laughing + stock. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And Moammar "They Give Them Pills at Night" Gadhafi will likely die too, probably leaking hilariously green blood but sadly without the word "laughingstock" ringing in his ears.”
“If the author wishes to make himself a laughingstock, that is his affair.”
“No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far.”
“It's over — we're officially, royally f*cked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. ...”
“It's over - we're officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far.”
“It's over -- we're officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far.”
“It's over -- we're officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running thi ...”
“So John Berry, head of the Office of Personnel Management, says he was worried about being a "laughingstock" if he released federal workers before the snow began to fall Wednesday afternoon?”
The Washington Post: Snowstorm failures: No single decision can be blamed
“One Democratic lawmaker has said that it has made Arizona a "laughingstock" but it's difficult to find an ounce of humor in this kind of venal legislation.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Zirin: No One Is Illegal: Boycott the Arizona Diamondbacks
“Politics and religion are about to mix and insure that "laughingstock" becomes an almost required synonym for the word "education" in Texas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘laughingstock’.
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Extract (2009)
Words from 2009 'Extract' film.
humbucking, vato, sweatpants, settle down, forklift, dinkus, mill around, condo, chlorine, insulation, fiberglass, bartender and 38 more...
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ABC
words which contain a string of three or more consecutive letters
crabcake, student, definitive, coughing, understudy, afghan, rijksmuseum, calmness, canopy, pop quiz, tuvalu, hijinks and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for laughingstock.
dontcry Or, stock in those little round cheeses with the cross-dressing bull on the front... Oct 31, 2008
whichbe A trickster stock on the Dow. Oct 30, 2008