单词 | laugh-compelling |
释义 | > as lemmaslaugh-compelling C1. General attributive, appositive, and objective, as laugh-compelling, laugh machine, laugh-shriek, etc. ΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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