laughee

noun

laughee

noun

Etymology From laugh + -ee.

1

One who is laughed at.

  • Adonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.1827, Henry Colburn, editor, Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable life:
  • Whatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and Sportsmen:

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