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laughsmith

noun

Etymology

From laugh + smith. Compare Old English hleahtorsmiþ (“one who causes laughter, mirth, or joy”, literally “laughter-smith”).

  1. derived from *smēy-✻
  2. inherited from *smiþaz✻
  3. inherited from *smiþ✻
  4. inherited from smiþ
  5. inherited from smyth
  6. compounded as laughsmith — “laugh + smith”

Definitions

  1. One who creates laughs

    One who creates laughs; a comic or comedian.

    • Mr. Harry Mendelson, laughsmith and humorist, now on the Keith circuit and known in vaudeville for ten years as Harry Montgomery, dispensed a number of good laughs and furnished a slight departure from a strictly musical evening.
    • Kogen's presence here, and his support for the band, is as good an example of just how seriously the band's comedy is taken by professional laughsmiths as you're likely to get.

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