| 单词 | laugh machine | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaugh machine  C1.   General attributive, appositive, and objective, as  laugh-compelling,  laugh machine,  laugh-shriek, etc. ΚΠ 1782    J. Elphinston tr.  Martial Epigrams  vi. iii. viii. 290  				Humor's ev'ry son eschew, And the laugh-compelling crew. 1834    H. Caunter in  Oriental Ann. xiv. 187  				The shrill laugh-shriek of the jackal. 1852    G. A. Sala in  Housh. Words 18 Sept. 8/1  				He will throw his huge grotesque laugh-provoking limbs on a stool. 1865    Cornhill Mag. July 35  				The West-country peasant ages ago called it [sc. the woodpecker] the ‘yaffingale’, that is, the laugh-singer. 1930    Punch 2 Apr. 365  				Talkie-producers..arrange what are termed ‘laugh-gaps’ in order that the voices of the performers may not be drowned by applause. 1957    P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xvi. 154  				Somebody has invented what is known as a laugh machine which can produce completely artificial laughter. 1984    Listener 21 June 35/4  				Bogey as a vampire zombie is the great laugh-getter of the week. 2000    S. Bellow Ravelstein 223  				So when I made my remark about the pictures, Ravelstein had given me his explosive laugh-stammer ‘Har har’. < as lemmas | 
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