laughtersome
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]laughtersome (comparative more laughtersome, superlative most laughtersome)
- Characterised or marked by laughter
- 1904, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, The Lord of Creation:
- They are a low, laughtersome company.
- 1908, The Academy, volume 75:
- Considered from this point of view, we say Punch is a really amusing and laughtersome publication.
- 1909, Walter Sydney Sichel, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan:
- There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs. Crewe and Miss Burney by dogging their footsteps round a picture gallery, [...]
- 1910, Walter Sydney Sichel, Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton:
- With her soul of attitudes, she must have felt herself in a double mood — heroic under strain, and laughtersome at care.
- 2016, Dr. Subhas Sarker, Jesus Christ - Eight Part Neoverse Epic:
- Its laughtersome shrills / Knowing ahead soul is what God deals [...]