laugher

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English lawȝar, lawher(e); equivalent to laugh +‎ -er.

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Noun

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laugher (plural laughers)

  1. One who laughs.
    • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Abbot. [], volume I, Edinburgh: [] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, []; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, [], →OCLC, page 251:
      Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.
    • 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. [], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 309:
      He and his companions [] were exchanging jokes with that sort of ostentatious laughter which implies a desire to prove that the laugher is not mortified though some people might suspect it.
    • 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119:
      These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.
  2. A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
  3. A variety of the domestic pigeon.
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