laughee

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noun

One who is laughed at.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounlaughee (plural laughees)

plural laughees

  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.

    1827, Henry Colburn, editor, Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable life
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    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.

    1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and Sportsmen

Origin

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