laughingstock

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

laughing +‎ stock.

Noun[edit]

laughingstock (plural laughingstocks)

  1. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
    • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, pages 295–296:
      Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family.