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Laughing

Definition: Laughing

Laughing

Adjective

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Laughing

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Laughing

Synonyms: laughing(a) (adj), riant (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Laughing

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Laughing

English words defined with "laughing": cackledieGelasticIrrisionlaugh, laugh away, laugh off, laugher, Laughing falcon, laughing gas, laughingly, laughter, Laughterless, lockMire crowNicagua, Nitrous oxideOutlaughPewit, protoxide of nitrogenRidentstress incontinenceThe Abderite, To straighten one's faceYaffle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "laughing": Abderitan, Abderitan LaughterCHOICE SPIRIT, Contentment is true Riches, CoreaDemocritosFLICKERINGLaugh in One's Sleeve, Laughing Philosopher, lmao, lolPATROFL, ROTFL, ROTFLMAO, ROTFLOLSardinian Laugh, Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter, SNEERING, stress urinary, stress urinary incontinenceTCPIP. (references)
Etymologies containing "laughing": Abderian. (references)

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Modern Usage: Laughing

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Laughing

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching With Humor and Play (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians - Vol. 1 (reference)

  • Jackie Mason: Look Who's Laughing! (reference)

  • Laurel and Hardy: Leave 'Em Laughing (reference)

  • Rumik World: The Laughing Target (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Laughing

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Photo Album: Laughing

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Laughing
 

"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!!!!!!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Laughing".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
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.
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Familiar Quotations: Laughing

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Laughing

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Laughing

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Laughing

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Usage Frequency: Laughing

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)91.06%1,9144,466
Adjective (general or positive)5.7%12029,358
Noun (proper)2.57%5446,184
Noun (singular)0.67%1493,893
                    Total100.00%2,102N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Laughing

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Laughing

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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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
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Modern Translation: Laughing

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 

  

(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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Laughing

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Larus atricilla, Streptopelia senegalensis. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Laughing

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 14, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintIna mhpote qentoV autou qemelion kai mh iscuontoV ektelesai panteV oi qewrounteV arxwntai empaizein autw
Latin405VulgateNe posteaquam posuerit fundamentum et non potuerit perficere omnes qui vident incipiant inludere ei
Old English990West Saxonþe læs syððan he þæne grundweall legð: and ne mæg hine fullfremman. ealle þe hit geseoð agynnan hine tælan
Middle English1395WyclifLest 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 English1526TyndaleLest after he hath layde ye foundacion and is not able to performe it all yt beholde it beginne to mocke him
Jacobean English1611King JamesLest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Victorian English1833WebsterLest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Basic English1964OgdenFor 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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Matched Bible Translations: Laughing

LanguageLuke Chapter 14, Verse 29
CebuanoTingali 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 、
Croatianda ga ne bi - pošto veæ postavi temelj, a ne mogne dovršiti - poèeli ismjehivati svi koji to vide:
Danishfor at ikke, når han får lagt Grunden og ej kan fuldende det, alle, som se det, skulle begynde at spotte ham og sige:
DutchOpdat niet misschien, als hij het fondament gelegd heeft, en niet kan voleindigen, allen, die het zien, hem beginnen te bespotten.
Finnishetteivät, kun hän on pannut perustuksen, mutta ei kykene saamaan rakennusta valmiiksi, kaikki, jotka sen näkevät, rupeaisi pilkkaamaan häntä
Frenchde 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,
Germanauf daß nicht, wo er Grund gelegt hat und kann's nicht hinausführen, alle, die es sehen, fangen an, sein zu spotten,
Haitian CreoleSi 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.
HungarianNehogy minekutána fundamentomot vetett, és elvégezni nem bírja, csúfolni kezdje õt mindenki, a ki látja,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSebab kalau ternyata ia tak dapat menyelesaikannya, padahal pondasinya sudah dibuat, maka semua orang yang melihat pekerjaan itu akan menertawakannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaSupaya jangan, setelah dibubuhnya alas, maka tiada dapat menyudahkan, lalu segala orang yang melihat hal itu mulai mengolok-olokkan dia,
LatvianLai vçlâk, pamatus ielicis un nespçdams pabeigt, netiktu no visiem, kas to redz, izzobots,
Manx GaelicEr-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,
MaoriKei whakatakoto ia i te turanga, ka kore e taea te whakaoti, a ka tawai mai ki a ia te hunga katoa e matakitaki ana,
Norwegianforat 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:
PortuguesePara não acontecer que, depois de haver posto os alicerces, e não a podendo acabar, todos os que a virem comecem a zombar dele,   
RumanianPentruca nu cumva, dupqce i -a pus temelia, sq nu -l poatq sfkrwi, wi toyi ceice -l vor vedea, sq knceapq sq rkdq de el,
RussianДБВЩ, ЛПЗДБ РПМПЦЙФ ПУОПЧБОЙЕ Й ОЕ ЧПЪНПЦЕФ УПЧЕТЫЙФШ, ЧУЕ ЧЙДСЭЙЕ ОЕ УФБМЙ УНЕСФШУС ОБД ОЙН,
ShuarTúrutsuk aya ukura iniaisam amuktin tujinkiakminkia, nuna Wáiniainia nu, wishikiainiak juna tiartatui:
SpanishNo sea que después de haber puesto los cimientos y al no poderla terminar, todos los que la vean comiencen a burlarse de él,
SwahiliLa sivyo, baada ya kuweka msingi na kushindwa kumaliza, watu watamcheka
SwedishEljest, om han lade grunden, men icke förmådde fullborda verket skulle ju alla som finge se det begynna att begabba honom
UmaApa' 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Laughing

Derivations

Words beginning with "laughing": laughingly, laughings, laughingstock, laughingstocks. (additional references)

Words ending with "laughing": outlaughing, overslaughing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Laughing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "laughing" (pronounced la"fing)
4-a" f i ngstaffing.
3-f i ngbeefing, 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.

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Anagrams: Laughing

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.

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INDEX

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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