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- verb Archaic spelling of
laugh .
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Examples
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Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughe ...
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Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughe ...
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Christe our king, writeth that the Turkes, and Saracenes by an auncient opinion receiued from Machomet: do laughe Christian menne to skorne, that seke thether with so greate reuerence.
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Now beganne Reniero to laughe very heartily, and perceiving how swiftly the day ran on in his course, he saide unto her.
The Decameron 2004
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That thei compted it vilanie to laughe, or to spitte before the kyng.
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For where they dare, in cumpanie where they like, they boldlie laughe to scorne both protestant and Papist.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Wherfore desyre ye to go in vyle & vnshapely vesture. that wanton & dissolute persones may rather be prouoked to scorne & laughe at you than to thynke euyl or desyre you/for they say not trouthe that do ensure themself with a glorye to kepe chastyte in a costely or ony shapely vesture
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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The king making semblaunce as though the olde woman doted, began to laughe.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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This is good stuffe, for wise men to laughe att or honest men to take pleasure at.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Whereupon the niece returns him a saucy answer, and "with that they gonnen laughe," and then she says --
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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