laugheen.
/lɑːˈfiː/, /laˈfiː/, U.S. /læˈfi/ A person who is laughed at; an object of laughter.Usually contrasted with laugher.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
jest1606
butt1607
make-sport1611
mocking1611
mirtha1616
laughing stakea1630
scoff1640
gaud1650
blota1657
make-mirth1656
ridicule1678
flout1708
sturgeon1708
laugh1710
ludibry1722
jestee1760
make-game1762
joke1791
laughee1808
laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
1808 E. Dubois My Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) p. xvi Hobbes attributes this cause of laughter ‘to a supposed consciousness of superiority in the laugher, to the object laughed at’, or as we say, laughee.
1875 D. W. Cartwright & M. F. Bailey Nat. Hist. Western Wild Animals ii. ix. 279 The tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.
1921 Classical Jrnl. 16 212 It [sc. laughter] is an immediate reaction unexpected and startling to the laugher as well as the laughee.
1927 K. Young Source Bk. Social Psychol. 393 Laughter socializes those who laugh together, but not as a rule the laugher and laughee.
2004 S. J. Anderson Killer Heels vi. 108 Cassady chuckled in delight, a rich, throaty sound that I find infectious and charming, except when I'm the laughee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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