larf
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
larf (third-person singular simple present larfs, present participle larfin', simple past and past participle larfed)
- (chiefly Cockney) Eye dialect spelling of laugh. [19th century to the present]
- 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, chapter 31
- The neighbours described me as "a sorrowful lookin' delicate creetur', that couldn't larf to save her life" [...]
- 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, chapter 31
Noun[edit]
larf (plural larfs or larves)
- (chiefly Cockney) Eye dialect spelling of laugh. [20th century to the present]
References[edit]
- “larf” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd edition; 1989]
