laughingstock

noun

Etymology

From laughing + stock.

  1. inherited from *stukkaz
  2. inherited from *stokk
  3. inherited from stocc
  4. inherited from stok
  5. compounded as laughingstock — “laughing + stock

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.

    • Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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