larf
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɑːf/
Verb[edit]
larf (third-person singular simple present larfs, present participle larfin', simple past and past participle larfed)
- (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [19th century to the present]
- 1901, Miles Franklin, “Mr M‘Swat and I Have a “Bust Up.””, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 269:
- The neighbours described me as "a sorrowful lookin' delicate creetur', that couldn't larf to save her life"—[…]
Noun[edit]
larf (plural larfs)
- (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [20th century to the present]
References[edit]
- “larf” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd edition; 1989]
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
larf f (plural larven, diminutive larfje n)
- Alternative form of larve.
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