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laughee

noun

Etymology

From laugh + -ee.

  1. inherited from *hlahjaną✻
  2. inherited from *hlahhjan✻
  3. inherited from hlæhhan
  4. inherited from laughen
  5. suffixed as laughee — “laugh + ee”

Definitions

  1. One who is laughed at.

    • Adonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.
    • Whatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for laughee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA