"He's making a laughingstock out of me; look around the room!"

He, like a fop and an ass, must be making himself a public laughingstock, and have no thank for his labour; where other Magisterii, whose invention is far more exquisite, are content to sit still and do nothing.

If you give the show away, besides making yourselves the laughingstocks of the world you may live for twenty-four hours if my people are unlucky, but I give you my word of honour, Phippsand I will do you the credit of believing that you recognise truth when you come across itthat you will both of you be dead before the dawn of the second day.

The Diet of Frankfort was pretentious, but practically impotent, and was the laughingstock of Europe.

[Slang], sucker [Slang]; laughingstock &c 857; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat's paw.

Ridiculousness N. ridiculousness &c adj.; comicality, oddity &c adj.; extravagance, drollery. farce, comedy; burlesque &c (ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c (fun) 840; frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity &c 497; bombast &c (unmeaning) 517; anticlimax, bathos; eccentricity, monstrosity &c (unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c 857.

Laughingstock N. laughingstock, jestingstock^, gazingstock^; butt, game, fair game; April fool &c (dupe) 547 [Obs.].

Laughingstock N. laughingstock, jestingstock^, gazingstock^; butt, game, fair game; April fool &c (dupe) 547 [Obs.].

"I've stayed here long enough, if even my sister-in-law, as well as my own nephew, from whom I expect nothing better, makes me her laughingstock.

reino, m., kingdom, dominion. reir (or rierse), to laugh; to smile; de, to laugh at; dar que (con), to ridicule, make sport (of), make a laughingstock (of); y se le rieron en sus barbas, and they laughed in his face; reirse en la nariz, to laugh in one's face; romper á , to burst out laughing. reiterar, to repeat, reiterate.

"If you are so pleased to be made a laughingstock of it's nothing to me," he flashed.

Florence Talpey Williams (W); 4Feb55; R144024. Laughingstock.

Florence Talpey Williams (W); 4Feb55; R144024. Laughingstock.

Sure ye'd be the laughingstock of the place, if ye went an' got married to a poor fellow like meself that hasn't a rag to his back nor a penny in his pocket, an' just stepped out o' prison more by tokensure, that alone 'ud make a deal o' differ!