单词 | laughing |
释义 | laughingn. The action of laugh v.; laughter. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] laughtereOE laughingc1325 laugh1673 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3070 Þe king bigan..to liyhe..‘Sire king,’ quaþ merlin, ‘ne make noȝt an idel such lyhinge [v.rr. lyȝhyng, lyghynge].’ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 He..euremo ssolle by myd god ine paise and ine leȝinge. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job viii. 21 To the time that thi mouth be fulfild with laȝhing. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 171 Leyȝhyng & enioyng in a seke body is sygne of deth. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 42 (MED) He saw the fende write all the laughinges that were betwene the women atte the masse. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1388/2 Wherat was good laughyng in sleeues of some. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 281 At the estate of such as are to be lamented, you fall a laughing. 1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature ix. 104 Laughing to ones self putteth all the rest to jealousie and examination of themselves. 1692 R. L'Estrange Life Æsop xiv. 18 in Fables They All burst out a Laughing by Consent. 1729 B. Franklin Papers (1959) I. 117 If such a Fellow makes Laughing the sole End and Purpose of his Life,..let him treat. 1778 F. Burney Diary Aug. in Diary & Lett. (1890) I. 86 An account which, had you heard it from himself, would have made you die with laughing. 1812 Parl. Debate 7 May in Examiner 11 May 297/2 Hear, hear, and laughing. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/1 There is talking and laughing among the field workers. 1902 K. Peters Eldorado of Ancients iv. 82 Through the silence of night one hears the laughing of the hyena. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 568 The annamation of evabusies, the livlianess of her laughings, such as a plurity of bells! 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ix. 88 At this Charles burst into such a fit of laughing that he choked on his pipe smoke. 2007 Guardian 27 Jan. (Guide Suppl.) 46/2 (advt.) New in Ldn, mid 30s, music teacher likes cooking, laughing, air hockey etc. PhrasesΚΠ c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 534 Þe fol is knowen bi his lauhwhing [Fr. Ly fous est conu par sa risé]. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 141 By ofte laghynge thow mayste know a fole. Compounds C1. General attributive with the sense ‘of, for, or relating to laughter’. ΚΠ a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xiii. sig. C.vv To proue that thys lyfe is no laughyng tyme. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Fivv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens It shuld be a laughyng thynge that so many of dyuers and often contraryes shulde be taken of a communyte. 1647 J. Harington Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 155 We grasp but airy blisses, and thus, tarantula-stung, dye midst laughing fits. a1672 P. Sterry Rise Kingdom of God (1683) 168 These Times answer one another. The Killing Time is the Weeping Time: the Healing Time is the Laughing Time. 1754 J. Elphinston tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Dialogues of Dead I. xiv. 72 Good-morrow, my friend: thou art no longer in a laughing humour. 1776 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions IV. lxix. 18 Now came on Mr. Draper's laughing time. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. i. 106 One [person] I especially remember as looking upon the laughing side of human affairs. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 436 Though not in a laughing humour, I swear that I cannot help laughing. 1926 Times 4 May 4/5 This is not a laughing time. (Cheers.). 1954 Billboard 21 Aug. 69/4 Judge William Gilliam..kept the assembly in a laughing mood with accounts of some hilarious events of his career. 1997 A. Garland Beach 168 He came over while we were in the middle of another laughing fit. C2. laughing academy n. slang (originally U.S.) a psychiatric hospital. ΚΠ 1911 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 8 June 6/5 Calculus, trigonometry and other things that fit a man for residence in the laughing academy. 2003 T. Griggs Rogue's Wedding viii. 84 Married keepers were not carted off quite so soon to the laughing academy from having walked around and around their chunk of rock until their wits were entirely unravelled. laughing death n. = kuru n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders brain damage1864 mind-blindness1888 satellitosis1906 syringobulbia1908 Alzheimer's disease1911 kernicterus1912 pseudotumour1914 brain death1928 punch-drunk1928 Sturge–Weber syndrome1935 Alzheimer1938 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939 Alzheimer1940 Schilder's disease1940 hypsarrhythmia1952 kuru1957 laughing death1957 Minamata disease1957 myelinolysis1959 spongiform encephalopathy1960 CJD1975 old-timer's disease1983 mad —— disease1990 1957 West Australian (Perth) 8 Oct. 7/5 Heredity is believed to be the cause of the laughing death disease which is sweeping through the young people of the..eastern highlands of New Guinea. 1957 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. H.R. 22nd Parl. 2nd Sess. XVI. 1108/2 Has the Minister for Territories seen recent reports indicating that a disease known as the ‘laughing death’..has been prevalent amongst natives of certain parts of New Guinea? 1995 Sci. Amer. Jan. 31/1 Kuru has been seen only among the Fore highlanders of Papua New Guinea. They call it the ‘laughing death’. 2006 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Oct. 9/1 Fatal familial insomnia is a so-called prion disease, a bizarre genus of ailments that includes kuru, or ‘laughing death’, which tribe members in Papua New Guinea contracted through the practice of cannibalizing their dead relatives. laughing game n. (a) = laughing matter n.; (b) = laughing stock n. (obsolete). ΚΠ 1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders (new ed.) sig. Fii Teche your folkes to come reuerently vnto the ghostly father with meke & sobre countenaunce and behauyour (for it is no laughynge game). 1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. A.iiiiv [They] didde compt them [sc. Christians] no better then the vilest fylth, thofscouringes and laughing games of ye whole worlde. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory i. lvii. 390 Wilt thou for a Cup of Drink be made the talk of the Countrey, the scorn of the Town, the sport and laughing game of Boyes? 1875 Baily's Mag. June 103 I can tell you it was no laughing game, when the bell began to ring, and hot baths and no end of things were wanted. 2008 Townsville (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 9 Oct. 24 Having an offshore community like Maggie Island may sound fun but it's no laughing game for the Townsville council. laughing gear n. (a) a state of amusement or hilarity; (b) slang the mouth, as the ‘equipment’ used for laughing; (now) esp. in to wrap (also get, etc.) one's laughing gear around something. ΚΠ 1874 C. Reade Rose & Rue III. xx. 341 Her sayings kept them in laughing gear all day long. 1889 R. Clynton Life Celebrated Buccaneer xxxvi. 213 Clap a stopper upon your laughing gear, and make all merriment fast. 1962 J. Wynnum Tar Dust 34 Wrap your laughing gear round this curry. 1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 May 37 comedians will be performing from next Thursday to Monday in venues around Kilkenny as the Cat Laughs festival gets into laughing gear. 2003 M. Norwood Sex & Married Girl v. 249 I just hold the base hard and get my laughing gear around it. laughing matter n. a subject for laughter or levity; chiefly in negative contexts as no laughing matter, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter laughterOE laughing game1530 laughing matter1549 laugh1689 scream1888 shriek1930 giggle1936 hoot1942 crack-up1961 laugher1973 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [noun] > that which is serious > a serious subject or remark no laughing matter1549 gravity1609 no joke1809 solemnity1822 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Riiiiv These sellers of offices shew that they beleue that there is neyther hell nor heauen. It is taken for a laughynge matter. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1366/2 Then the audience laughed againe, and maister Latimer spake vnto them saying: why my maisters, this is no laughyng matter. I aunsweare vpon life and death. 1641 R. Wild in Roxburghe Ballads (1888) VI. 456 Bigamy of Steeples is no laughing matter. 1793 Sheridan in Sheridaniana 141 A joke in your mouth is no laughing matter. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiv. 200 These little festivities were laughing matters. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. ix. 115 It was not exactly a laughing matter to me. 1953 I. Brody Gone with Windsors xxix. 305 Being Number One Best-Dressed Woman in the World is no laughing matter. 2004 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. ii. 29/2 At this moment in America's history, it seems, airport security is not a laughing matter. laughing muscle n. [in sense (b) after post-classical Latin musculus risorius (see risorius n.)] (a) any muscle supposedly involved in the act of laughing; (b) Anatomy (an informal term for) the risorius muscle of the face. ΚΠ 1765 J. Hoadly in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems V. 341 If he the laughing muscle moves, Thou nor the critic's sneer shal'st mind, Nor be to pies and trunks consign'd. 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Expostulatory Odes xv. 50 My Lords, my laughing muscles can't lie still. 1838 W. J. E. Wilson Pract. & Surg. Anat. v. 158 That portion of the muscle which is continued upwards to the angle of the mouth, was formerly called risorius Santorini (the laughing muscle of Santorinus). 1900 Science 1 June 855/2 The Risorius, the ‘laughing muscle’, draws upward and backward the corners of the mouth. 1913 Lancet 29 Mar. 901/1 It seems strange that one who has tried to look into the meanings of anatomical terms should assert that the risorius is the laughing muscle.., for that is to mislead the student. 1998 Funeral Service Jrnl. Sept. 32/1 Having exercised our eating, talking and laughing muscles, we will exercise all the rest and burn off those calories as we disco our way back to Westminster Pier. laughing peal n. now rare a peal of laughter. ΚΠ 1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie sig. C3 The whole hall for ioy did ring out a loud laffing peale. 1785 Beauties of Brinsleiad 20 How half-pay captains paying, ah! full price, Mix'd with loud laughing peals, alternated sighs, 'Twould cost five shillings more to see it twice. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. xiii. 276 The laughing peals her phrases occasionally provoked. 1904 H. Porter tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Satires x. 86 Shall I depict her skirt,..on which the wags, with many a laughing peal, Argumentabor clearly read behind her heel? laughing post n. = laughing stock n. ΘΚΠ 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 1810 Splendid Follies II. 150 Nobody can't say I have stuck myself up for a laughing post. 1955 Rev. Politics 17 390 The hillbilly is now the laughing-post, as the farmer was in the 1870's. 2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 26 July 19 With a transvestite nurse thrown in for good measure as a laughing post, it smacks of tokenism. ΘΚΠ 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 a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) i. iii. 648 He lay in Vulcans giues a laughing stake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). laughingadj. That laughs (in various senses); characterized by or suggestive of laughter. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective] > laughing laughingOE on the laugh1770 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 270 Hwæt þa on middre nihte..wearð micel gehlyd hlihhendra deofla. OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xv. 151 Ða se eadiga wer Guðlac mid bliþum andwlitan and hlihhende gespræce [L. leviter subridens ludibri famine] he cwæþ to heom: For hwon behydde git þa flaxan under ane tyrf? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7366 (MED) In visage es he bright and clere, In red of heu, o laghand chere. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 988 Þus wyth laȝande loteȝ þe lorde hit tayt makeȝ. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 34 [He] schawyt him, with lauchand cher, The Endentur. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ei A gyrle hauyng laughyng eyes. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 105 Wo shall yeld thee frendes in laughing wealth to loue. c1590 Manifolde Enormities in F. R. Raines Descr. County Lancaster (1875) 4 The Scornefull laffinge Countenance of other som. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 47 To chide the windes, or hiuing bees, that flie About the laughing bloosms of sallowie. 1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage 11 Am I then the sport, The Game of Fortune, and her laughing Fools? 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 58. ⁋2 A Man would be apt to think in this laughing Town, that [etc.]. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 10 O'er the foaming bowl the laughing wine. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 5 And tunes to softer notes her laughing lyre. 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xlix. 23 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. x. 269 A brisk laughing sea..made a pleasant outlook. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 There he sat, surrounded by happy, laughing young men. 1967 A. Rutgers Birds Austral. 262 Regent Honey-eaters make a lot of noise and have a loud laughing call. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land vi. 65 All had long glossy hair, which they tousled from side to side, and laughing, kitten eyes, with which they pleaded. Compounds C1. laughing-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerful-looking bonny1590 fowie1599 laughing-eyed1784 roseate1787 blithe-looking1846 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 1784 R. Tattam in Wit's Mag. 119/2 In her temple the laughing-eyed goddess they found. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxii. 597 So have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 9/1 Pale-faced women were hugging to their hearts their rosy-cheeked, laughing-eyed children. 2004 Sault (Sault St. Marie, Ont.) Star (Nexis) 14 Sept. b5 A golden-haired, laughing-eyed girl of 16 with the courage and fortitude of an Amazon swam Lake Ontario. C2. laughing boy n. ironic (originally U.S.) (a nickname for) a morose or serious man. ΚΠ 1940 J. Meehan & H. Tugend Seven Sinners (film script) Laughing boy is here again. 1991 S. Fry Liar (1992) xi. 322 A car for me and laughing boy here. 2009 Sun (Nexis) 8 Aug. 3 [He] cops more than his fair share of stick for allegedly being humourless... As he strode past I cried out: ‘Here comes laughing boy.’ C3. In the names of mammals and (esp.) birds, so called from their calls. ΚΠ 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 387 Of the laughing Bird or Quapachtototl [L. De Ave ridibunda seu Quapachtototl]. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 353 This Cuckoo is called the Laughing-bird [Fr. oiseau-rieur], on account of its call. 1803 J. Grant Narr. Voy. New S. Wales 134 We often distinguished the laughing-bird, whose note can only be compared to the ha! ha! ha! of a hearty laughing companion. 1849 W. S. Chauncy Guide S. Austral. 28 The laughing bird..may also be noticed..for the peculiar strains in which it indulges. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 100 Its loud laughing note has caused it to be called Laughing bird (Salop). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > genus Garrulax (laughing-thrush) spectacle thrush1781 laughing crow1812 laughing-thrush1839 1812 T. Hardwicke Let. 19 Nov. in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1815) 11 ii. 209 Perhaps the Society may think the Laughing Crow as appropriate a name as that which I have given. 1853 J. Capper Three Presidencies India Introd. 31 The laughing crow is met with in great numbers in the vicinity of the forests of Hurdwar and Sireenagur. 1879 W. Rossiter Illustr. Dict. Sci. Terms (at cited word) Laughing Crow, Cinclosoma erythrocephalus, a bird belonging to Merulidæ. laughing dove n. [in early use after German Lachtaube (1720 or earlier)] any of several doves of the genus Streptopelia having laughing calls; spec. S. senegalensis, a small dove found widely from Africa to India.In quot. 1959: the domesticated Barbary or ring-neck dove, ‘ S. risoria’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > member of genus Streptopelia > streptopelia senegalensis (laughing dove) laugher1735 laugh-dove1755 laughing dove1814 1814 G. H. Noehden Rabenhorst's Dict. German & Eng. Lang. II. 250/2 Lachtaube, f. Lachtäubchen, n. laughing-dove, Indian turtle-dove. 1845 Script. Nat. Hist. (Presbyterian Board Publ., Philadelphia) 97 The collared turtle, or laughing dove..is probably the species referred to in Scripture, as it is common in Syria and the adjacent countries. 1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. I. ii. 47 The most common birds in the Riet River valley are doves.., the South African blue-grey turtle-dove, and the laughing dove. 1959 Amer. Biol. Teacher 21 17/1 (caption) The ‘blond’ color variety, typical of the domestic ring neck or laughing dove. 2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 12948/2 (caption) Hornets..attacking a freshly skinned carcass of a laughing dove (Streptopelia senegalensis). laughing goose n. North American (now regional) the greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser albifrons (white-front) laughing goose1750 whitefront1855 speckle-belly1874 tortoiseshell goose1885 1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 153 The Laughing-Goose. This Bird is about the Size of our common Wild Goose. 1852 J. Richardson Arctic Searching Exped. xv. 303 The laughing geese passed Fort Franklin a few days later than the snow geese. 1984 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts (1992) 100 A wedge of what he called ‘laughing geese’ (white-fronted geese) skimmed overhead. laughing gull n. [in sense (b) after scientific Latin Larus ridibundus (Linnaeus 1766); compare German Lachmöwe (1783 or earlier; 1774 or earlier as Lachmöve), French mouette rieuse (1764)] (a) a medium-sized gull, Larus atricilla, with a grey back and (in the breeding season) a black head, found from eastern Canada to northern South America; †(b) the black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus atricilla (laughing gull) mire crow1678 laughing gull1731 lapwing-gull1844 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 89/1 Larus Major. The Laughing Gull... These birds are numerous in most of the Bahama Islands. The noise they make has some resemblance to laughing. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 335/1 Xema ridibundus... This bird is the..Laughing Gull, Pewit or Blackcap, Sea Crow and Mire Crow of the Modern British. 1884 Bull. U.S. National Museum No. 27. 169 Laughing Gull... Atlantic coast, from Maine (casually) to mouth of the Amazon. 1968 Times 10 Oct. 8/8 The laughing gull could be a useful animal for studying colour perception. 2002 Delaware Beach Life Aug. 19/1 Laughing gulls start leaving the area in late summer, heading south to warmer climes. laughing hyena n. a hyena; spec. the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta, whose vocalizations include cackling and giggling calls that resemble laughter. N.E.D. (1899), at Hyena, comments that ‘the name Laughing Hyena was originally applied to the Striped H.’ (cf. quot. 1881), but the evidence now available does not seem to support this. ΚΠ 1594 R. Wilson Coblers Prophesie sig. E2 You laugh Hiena like, weepe as the Crocodile.] ?1790 Living Curiosities (Pidcock's Exhib. Wild Beasts) (single sheet) (advt.) The Laughing Hyena not seen in England for forty Years. 1805 J. Feltham Picture of London (new ed.) 107 A Spotted, or Laughing Hyena, from the Cape; presented by David Scott, Esq. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 421/1 The Striped Hyæna... Its unearthly howling..when the animal is excited, changes into what has been compared to demoniac laughter, and hence the name of ‘laughing hyæna’, by which it is also known. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo vii. 112 We could always make our spotted hyena..laugh by holding his meat an extra moment or two on the outside of the bars, when he would laugh and gurgle and froth at the mouth enough to convince any visitor who did not believe in the laughing hyena. 2008 D. Macdonald New Encycl. Mammals 143/2 Calls..include whoops, yells, and a kind of demented cackle, from which this species derives its alternative name of Laughing hyena. laughing jackass n. (a) chiefly Australian = laughing kookaburra n. (cf. jackass n.1 4); †(b) New Zealand = laughing owl n. (b) (obsolete); (c) New Zealand any of various petrels and shearwaters. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > dacelo novaeguineae (kookaburra) kingfisher1440 laughing jackass1798 settler's clock1827 jackass1844 goburra1860 Jack1863 kookaburra1890 Jacky1898 Jacko1907 kooka1933 1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales I. 615 Go-gan-ne-gine, Bird named by us the Laughing Jack-Ass. 1822 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds IV. 10 Great Brown Kingsfisher..the note compared to human laughter, which should give the idea of cheerfulness; hence called the Laughing Bird, or Laughing Jack-Ass. 1860 S. Butler Forest Creek MS (1960) 45 The laughing jackass [of New Zealand] is unlike the well behaved boy inasmuch as the latter is seen and not heard—the former is heard but has never yet been seen. 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 45 Puffinus gavius... Rain-bird or Wet-bird. Shearwater, Laughing Jackass(?). Hakoakoa. 1940 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (1954) 250 On foggy evenings the laughing petrels, or laughing jackasses, as some people called them, would come rushing in from the sea, making for their nesting places in the hills, and start their hair-raising clatter close overhead. 2002 Esquire Sept. 136/3 Whatever pastoral bliss this description might suggest is pierced by..the mad whooping of kookaburras (laughing jackasses, locals call them, and accurately). laughing kookaburra n. a kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, which is common in eastern Australia and well known for its laughing call; also called laughing jackass. ΚΠ 1926 Official Checklist Birds Austral. (Royal Austral. Ornithol. Union) p. v Some long formal names such as Great Brown Kingfisher..and Rose-breasted Cockatoo, have been replaced by Laughing Kookaburra..and Galah respectively. 1968 Auk 85 66 In the remaining member of the genus.., the Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas) of Australia, several individuals perched next to each other on the same limb may call simultaneously. 2002 Backpacker Feb. 55/1 Morning breaks with the maniacal cackle of a laughing kookaburra perched in a tree above my tent. laughing owl n. (a) U.S. regional any of several North American owls, as the barred owl, Strix varia, or a screech owl (genus Megascops); (b) an extinct owl of New Zealand, Sceloglaux albifacies, with a pale face, brown-streaked plumage, and a call likened to shrieking laughter, thought to have been exterminated in the mid 20th cent. (also called whekau); (c) Australian either of two nightjars, the white-throated nightjar, Eurostopodus mystacalis, and the spotted nightjar, E. argus. ΚΠ 1848 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 531/1 The free open shout of the large laughing owl, so abundant in South Florida,..fell upon the ear at short intervals. 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 2 Athene albifacies... Laughing Owl. Laughing Jackass. Wekau. 1929 A. H. Chisholm Birds & Green Places 157 A ‘laughing owl’, the white-throated nightjar of ornithology. 1964 M. Sharland Territory of Birds 199 The curtain of night came down..slow enough to persuade a ‘Laughing Owl’ [sc. a nightjar] to utter its curiously eerie herald to the night. 1985 Reader's Digest Bk. N.Z. Birds 308 The ‘doleful shrieks’ of the laughing owl, which varied seasonally, were heard incessantly on rainy nights. 1986 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States: Concordance [Arkansas] Hoot owl,..Laughing owl. laughing-thrush n. any of numerous babblers constituting the tropical Asian genus Garrulax (family Timaliidae), having a noisy laughing call.The genus Garrulax is polyphyletic and many species are likely to be moved to new genera, some of which may be placed in other families. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > genus Garrulax (laughing-thrush) spectacle thrush1781 laughing crow1812 laughing-thrush1839 1839 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 10 256 The cry of the ‘laughing thrush’ is very peculiar, and once heard cannot be forgotten. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life iii. 44 The fine laughing-thrushes, forming the genus Garrulax. 1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 70 149 The Himalayas are probably as much a refuge for the Thar, Rhododendron, and Laughing Thrush as are the Nilgiri Hills. 2005 Mountain Res. & Devel. 25 239/1 The white-throated laughingthrush (Garrulax albogularis)..and black-faced laughingthrush (Garrulax affinis) were more abundant under the open canopy conditions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325adj.OE |
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