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单词 laugh-compelling
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laugh-compelling
C1. General attributive, appositive, and objective, as laugh-compelling, laugh machine, laugh-shriek, etc.
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1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams vi. iii. viii. 290 Humor's ev'ry son eschew, And the laugh-compelling crew.
1834 H. Caunter in Oriental Ann. xiv. 187 The shrill laugh-shriek of the jackal.
1852 G. A. Sala in Housh. Words 18 Sept. 8/1 He will throw his huge grotesque laugh-provoking limbs on a stool.
1865 Cornhill Mag. July 35 The West-country peasant ages ago called it [sc. the woodpecker] the ‘yaffingale’, that is, the laugh-singer.
1930 Punch 2 Apr. 365 Talkie-producers..arrange what are termed ‘laugh-gaps’ in order that the voices of the performers may not be drowned by applause.
1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xvi. 154 Somebody has invented what is known as a laugh machine which can produce completely artificial laughter.
1984 Listener 21 June 35/4 Bogey as a vampire zombie is the great laugh-getter of the week.
2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 223 So when I made my remark about the pictures, Ravelstein had given me his explosive laugh-stammer ‘Har har’.
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