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laughing-stock
[f. laughing vbl. n. + stock.]
An object of laughter; a butt for ridicule; said both of persons and things.
1533Frith Bk. agst. Rastell (1829) 219 Albeit..I be reputed a laughing-stock in this world. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 20 Poetry..is fallen to be the laughing stocke of children. 1667–8Pepys Diary 4 Jan, I perceive my Lord Anglesey do make a mere laughing-stock of this Act. 1775Sheridan St. Patr. Day ii. iv, You'll be a laughing stock to the whole bench, and a byword with all the pig-tailed lawyers. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 213 He could not see any fun in being made a laughing-stock of. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1864) 369 A numerous party to whom the old superstition was a laughing stock. 1881Macm. Mag. XLIV. 118 No wonder that the parish priest becomes the laughingstock of the nobles. |