larfin'

A form of laughing — verbal adjective of laugh: the action of the verb to laugh.

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Meanings

verb
  1. Irelandnonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of laughing.

    Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

    1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242
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