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Definition: Laughing |
LaughingAdjective1. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laughing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings, and bright companions socially. Laughing immoderately at some weird object, denotes disappointment and lack of harmony in your surroundings. To hear the happy laughter of children, means joy and health to the dreamer. To laugh at the discomfiture of others, denotes that you will wilfully injure your friends to gratify your own selfish desires. To hear mocking laughter, denotes illness and disappointing affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LaughingSynonyms: laughing(a) (adj), riant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Amused; Verb: "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"; laughing; Verb:; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles. |
Importance | Gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter; pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death. |
Physical Insensibility | Anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration. |
Prediction | Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Laughing |
| English words defined with "laughing": cackle ♦ die ♦ Gelastic ♦ Irrision ♦ laugh, laugh away, laugh off, laugher, Laughing falcon, laughing gas, laughingly, laughter, Laughterless, lock ♦ Mire crow ♦ Nicagua, Nitrous oxide ♦ Outlaugh ♦ Pewit, protoxide of nitrogen ♦ Rident ♦ stress incontinence ♦ The Abderite, To straighten one's face ♦ Yaffle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laughing": Abderitan, Abderitan Laughter ♦ CHOICE SPIRIT, Contentment is true Riches, Corea ♦ Democritos ♦ FLICKERING ♦ Laugh in One's Sleeve, Laughing Philosopher, lmao, lol ♦ PAT ♦ ROFL, ROTFL, ROTFLMAO, ROTFLOL ♦ Sardinian Laugh, Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter, SNEERING, stress urinary, stress urinary incontinence ♦ TCPIP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "laughing": Abderian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I could never go through with it. I'd start laughing or something (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Can we just skip the vibe, and go straight to us laughing about this (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) I'm sorry, Harry, I know this is hard for you. But you gotta admit if this was me you'd be laughing your ass off (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) Stop that laughing! You know what happens when you can't stop laughing (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) If there is a hell, sir, my father is in it and he is looking up right now and he is laughing his ass off. Sanford Babbitt, you wanna be that guy's son for five minutes (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) | |
Lyrics | That you were laughing. (Laughing; performing artist: The Guess Who) I'm laughing at you you're laughing at me (TUNNEL OF LOVE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) People dancing, people laughing (Saturday In The Park; performing artist: Chicago) When I last saw you laughing (True Colors; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper) When you're around I'm always laughing (I TOUCH MYSELF; performing artist: Divinyls) | |
Clever | You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. (references; author: unknown) WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you. (references; author: unknown) Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Laughing Policeman (1973) Enter Laughing (1967) Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) Laughing Anne (1953) Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) | |
Song Titles | Laughing (performing artist: The Guess Who) | |
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![]() | A laughing gull rides the wind over the NOAA Ship FERREL. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). | ![]() | A young Laughing Gull. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | A Laughing Gull. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Laughing gulls. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Laughing Gulls. Credit: Bob Hines. | ![]() | When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The punch line, both men laughing. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Old gentleman stepping out of horse-drawn carriage and gesticulating with pipe to laughing liverymen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | What are you laughing at?. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Laughing cavalier. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Laughing" by Christo Pacheco Commentary: "Seattle, Washington." | "Self portrait (laughing hard)" by Annie Andre Commentary: "It's me posing for the cameras. i'm not really laughing at anything. ahhha ha ha haa haa!!!!!!." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Roller coaster ride with people laughing and screaming. | Woman laughing hysterically and snorting. | ||
| Group laughing. | Man laughing uncontrollably. | ||
| Chimpanzee laughing. | Baby laughing. | ||
| Man laughing a short chuckle. | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Jane Austen | One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. |
John Greenleaf Whittier | Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. |
Minna Antrim | An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. |
Oliver Goldsmith | I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. |
Oscar Wilde | One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | But his spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after mentioning the expected return of the Campbells, he named the name of Dixon |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Sylvie turned her laughing face to me. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then she went down stairs and out of doors, running and jumping, still laughing. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The other fellows stopped their game and turned round, laughing. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He seemed to be laughing inside himself |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As with adductor spasmodic dysphonia, the spasms are often absent during activities such as laughing or singing. (references) | |
Jokes are often made about alcohol hangovers but the headache associated with "the morning after" is no laughing matter. (references) | ||
If coughing, laughing, sneezing, or other movements that put pressure on the bladder cause you to leak urine, you may have stress incontinence. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Diane Sawyer | I know, I'm just laughing at you because the last time I was on, we did this too. And you're not here, I can't throw anything at you. |
Dick Van Dyke | We used to break up laughing. We had a terrible time the first year, looking at each other on set and starting to laugh. And a psychologist told me that's a sign of an attraction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Laughing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.06% of the time. "Laughing" is used about 2,102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.06% | 1,914 | 4,466 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.7% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.57% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "laughing": burst one's sides with laughing ♦ burst out laughing ♦ die of laughing ♦ die with laughing ♦ it is no laughing matter ♦ laughing bird ♦ Laughing falcon ♦ laughing gas ♦ Laughing goose ♦ laughing gull ♦ laughing hyaena ♦ laughing hyena ♦ laughing jackass ♦ laughing owl ♦ laughing stock ♦ not to be able to help laughing ♦ set smb. laughing ♦ shake one's side with laughing ♦ split with laughing ♦ you will be everybody's laughing stock. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "laughing": laughing-dislikes, laughing-eyed, laughing-goose, laughing-muscle, laughing-stock, laughing-with. | |
Ending with "laughing": half-laughing. | |
Containing "laughing": How-to-stop-them-laughing-on-the-beach. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
laughing | 208 | christ laughing | 11 |
laughing buddha | 184 | funny laughing way | 11 |
cheese cow laughing | 108 | laughing picture | 11 |
laughing gas | 83 | laughing people picture | 11 |
jesus laughing | 62 | laughing buddha picture | 11 |
cow laughing | 46 | laughing colors | 11 |
baby laughing | 45 | face laughing | 11 |
laughing place | 39 | hyena laughing | 11 |
laughing lynx | 30 | laughing woman | 11 |
girl laughing | 20 | laughing gull | 11 |
picture of jesus laughing | 20 | laughing dog | 10 |
laughing sound | 19 | laughing party picture | 10 |
laughing people | 19 | laughing stock | 10 |
cheese cow laughing light | 18 | cavalier laughing | 10 |
cat laughing | 18 | laughing horse | 9 |
and the child laughing | 17 | gas laughing zone | 9 |
laughing boy | 13 | gifs laughing | 8 |
the laughing man | 13 | the laughing policeman | 8 |
kid laughing | 12 | laughing pen | 8 |
buddha laughing tattoo | 12 | laughing buddha statue | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "laughing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qeshje (laugh, laughter), që të bën të qeshësh, që qesh (risible). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, silly, wag). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усмихнат, смешен (amusing, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, screwy), в изгодно положение, засмян (riant), добре поставен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 笑 (laugh, Laughed). (various references) | |
Czech | usmìvavý, smavý. (various references) | |
Danish | latterkrampe (compulsive laughing, convulsive laughing, forced laughing), lattergas (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), senegaldue (laughing dove), N2O (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), kvælstofforilte (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), E942 (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), dinitrogenoxid (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), dinitrogenmonoxid (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide). (various references) | |
Dutch | lachmeeuw (laughing gull), lachkramp (compulsive laughing, convulsive laughing, forced laughing), lachgas (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), stikstofoxyduul (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), stikstofoxydule (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), palmtortel (laughing dove), N2O (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), E942 (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), distikstofoxyde (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), distikstofoxidn (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilokaasu (laughing gas, nitrous oxide). (various references) | |
French | ridicule (laughable), riant. (various references) | |
German | lachend (laughingly). (various references) | |
Greek | γέλιο (laugh, laughter), γελώσ, γελών. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nevetõ, nevetés (laugh, laughter, titter), nevetős, nevető, kacagó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | badutan (laughing stock). (various references) | |
Italian | scherzoso (gamesome, jocular, joking, mock, playful, sportive, waggish), riso (laugh, laughter, mirth, rice), risata (laugh, laughter), ridente (smiling), che ride, allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 笑気 (laughing gas, nitrous oxide), 笑殺 (dismissing with a laugh, laughing off), 笑い事 (laughing matter), 噴飯 (bursting out laughing), 抱腹絶倒 (laugh oneself into convulsions, split one's sides laughing, very funny), 思い出し笑い (laughing while reminiscing), 捧腹絶倒 (laugh oneself into convulsions, split one's sides laughing, very funny), 棒腹絶倒 (laugh oneself into convulsions, split one's sides laughing, very funny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもいだしわらい (laughing while reminiscing), しょうさつ (booklet, careful observation, dismissing with a laugh, laughing off, pamphlet), しょうき (affectation, business opportunity, consciousness, desire to be impressive, god to ward off illness and misfortune, laughing gas, marsh gas, methane, minute description, nitrous oxide, person of small capacities, sanity, small container, soberness, true character, true heart, true spirit), ふんぱん (bursting out laughing), ほうふくぜっとう (laugh oneself into convulsions, split one's sides laughing, very funny), わらいごと (laughing matter). (various references) | |
Korean | 실소. (various references) | |
Manx | garaghtee (laugh, laughter), garaghtagh (laughable). (various references) | |
Norwegian | leende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aughinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | risonho, que provoca o riso (humorous), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | râzãtor, râs (laugh, laughter, lynx, mirth), de râs (derisive, ludicrous, risible), care râde (risible). (various references) | |
Russian | смеющийся, смеяться смех шуточный, смешной (amusing, comic, comical, farcical, funny, humorous, jokey, laughable, ludicrous, merry, risible). (various references) | |
Scottish | gàireachdaich (nm.ind. laughing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uveseljavajući. (various references) | |
Spanish | riendo. (various references) | |
Swedish | skrattande (laughingly). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าหัวเราะ (risible), การหัวเราะ (laughter), ซึ่งกำลังหัวเราะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | neşe veren, komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), gülme (laugh, laughter, mirth, risible), gülen (smiling), güldürücü (jocular, risible). (various references) | |
Turkmen | oяnatgy (butt of a joke, laughing stock). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розсміятися (burst out laughing, laugh). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui cười, tươi cười đây không phải là chuyện đùa, sự cười đùa (mirth), sự cười (laughter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Larus atricilla, Streptopelia senegalensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ina mhpote qentoV autou qemelion kai mh iscuontoV ektelesai panteV oi qewrounteV arxwntai empaizein autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne posteaquam posuerit fundamentum et non potuerit perficere omnes qui vident incipiant inludere ei |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þe læs syððan he þæne grundweall legð: and ne mæg hine fullfremman. ealle þe hit geseoð agynnan hine tælan |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest aftir that he hath set the foundement, and mowe not perfourme, alle that seen, bigynnen to scorne hym, and seie, For this man bigan to bilde, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lest after he hath layde ye foundacion and is not able to performe it all yt beholde it beginne to mocke him |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Tingali unya hinoon, sa diha nga ikabutang na niya ang patukoranan ug unya dili na siya makahimo sa paghuman niini, ang tanang makakita niini mosugod sa pagbiaybiay kaniya, |
| Chinese | 恐 怕 安 了 地 基 、 不 能 成 功 、 看 見 的 人 都 笑 話 他 、 |
| Croatian | da ga ne bi - pošto veæ postavi temelj, a ne mogne dovršiti - poèeli ismjehivati svi koji to vide: |
| Danish | for at ikke, når han får lagt Grunden og ej kan fuldende det, alle, som se det, skulle begynde at spotte ham og sige: |
| Dutch | Opdat niet misschien, als hij het fondament gelegd heeft, en niet kan voleindigen, allen, die het zien, hem beginnen te bespotten. |
| Finnish | etteivät, kun hän on pannut perustuksen, mutta ei kykene saamaan rakennusta valmiiksi, kaikki, jotka sen näkevät, rupeaisi pilkkaamaan häntä |
| French | de peur qu`après avoir posé les fondements, il ne puisse l`achever, et que tous ceux qui le verront ne se mettent à le railler, |
| German | auf daß nicht, wo er Grund gelegt hat und kann's nicht hinausführen, alle, die es sehen, fangen an, sein zu spotten, |
| Haitian Creole | Si l' pa fè sa, l'ap fin poze fondasyon an, epi l' p'ap ka fini batisman an. Lè sa a, tout moun ki va wè sa va pran pase l' nan betiz. |
| Hungarian | Nehogy minekutána fundamentomot vetett, és elvégezni nem bírja, csúfolni kezdje õt mindenki, a ki látja, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab kalau ternyata ia tak dapat menyelesaikannya, padahal pondasinya sudah dibuat, maka semua orang yang melihat pekerjaan itu akan menertawakannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Supaya jangan, setelah dibubuhnya alas, maka tiada dapat menyudahkan, lalu segala orang yang melihat hal itu mulai mengolok-olokkan dia, |
| Latvian | Lai vçlâk, pamatus ielicis un nespçdams pabeigt, netiktu no visiem, kas to redz, izzobots, |
| Manx Gaelic | Er-aggle erreish da yn undin y boiaghey, as nagh vel yn fort echey dy chur kione er, dy jean ooilley nee fakin eh toshiaght dy chraidey mysh, |
| Maori | Kei whakatakoto ia i te turanga, ka kore e taea te whakaoti, a ka tawai mai ki a ia te hunga katoa e matakitaki ana, |
| Norwegian | forat ikke, når han har lagt grunnen og ikke er i stand til å fullføre det, alle de som ser det, skal begynne å spotte ham og si: |
| Portuguese | Para não acontecer que, depois de haver posto os alicerces, e não a podendo acabar, todos os que a virem comecem a zombar dele, |
| Rumanian | Pentruca nu cumva, dupqce i -a pus temelia, sq nu -l poatq sfkrwi, wi toyi ceice -l vor vedea, sq knceapq sq rkdq de el, |
| Russian | ДБВЩ, ЛПЗДБ РПМПЦЙФ ПУОПЧБОЙЕ Й ОЕ ЧПЪНПЦЕФ УПЧЕТЫЙФШ, ЧУЕ ЧЙДСЭЙЕ ОЕ УФБМЙ УНЕСФШУС ОБД ОЙН, |
| Shuar | Túrutsuk aya ukura iniaisam amuktin tujinkiakminkia, nuna Wáiniainia nu, wishikiainiak juna tiartatui: |
| Spanish | No sea que después de haber puesto los cimientos y al no poderla terminar, todos los que la vean comiencen a burlarse de él, |
| Swahili | La sivyo, baada ya kuweka msingi na kushindwa kumaliza, watu watamcheka |
| Swedish | Eljest, om han lade grunden, men icke förmådde fullborda verket skulle ju alla som finge se det begynna att begabba honom |
| Uma | Apa' ane mpolia' natu'u-mi parawatu-na pai' uma hudu nawangu apa' naka'otii doi-na, hawe'ea tauna to mpohilo mpotawai-i, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laughing": laughingly, laughings, laughingstock, laughingstocks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "laughing": outlaughing, overslaughing. (additional references) | |
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"Laughing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaughain, Gaughin, laufing, laughen, Loughrigg, luaging, Lughan, luoghi, ploughings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laughing" (pronounced la"fing) |
| 4 | -a" f i ng | staffing. |
| 3 | -f i ng | beefing, bluffing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, debriefing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, huffing, knifing, leafing, morphing, offing, photographing, proofing, puffing, rebuffing, roofing, roughing, ruffing, rustproofing, sniffing, snuffing, spiffing, spoofing, strafing, stuffing, surfing, waterproofing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: hauling, nilghau. | |
-2 letters: gingal, gluing, haling, hangul, inhaul, lingua, luging, nilgau. | |
-3 letters: aging, algin, align, gulag, laigh, laugh, liang, ligan, linga, lungi, uhlan. | |
-4 letters: agin, anil, gain, gang, gaun, giga, glia, glug, guan, hail, hang, haul, hila, hula, hung, iglu, lain, lang, ling, luna, lung, nail, nigh, ulan, ulna, unai. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, gag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: laughings. | |
+2 letters: claughting, galumphing, laughingly. | |
+3 letters: languishing, outlaughing. | |
+4 letters: chugalugging, slaughtering, unchangingly. | |
+5 letters: hemagglutinin, languishingly, laughingstock, overslaughing, unchallenging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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