| 单词 | laughing game |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaughing game 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 1562 tr. J. Jewel Apol. Church Eng. i. 9 [They] did count them no better then..the of-scourings and laughing games of the whole worlde. 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 204 Those sweete wits..Are now despizd, and made a laughing game. 1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War iv. sig. K2 Mighty men obscure each others fame, And make the best deseruers fortunes game. 1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. Kv Mock on, mock on: make me your ieasting game, I doe deserue much more than this small shame. 1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage 11 Am I then the sport, The Game of Fortune, and her laughing Fools? 1701 C. Povey Unhappiness of Eng. 85 You may see a Buffoon dress'd in the Habit of a Grave Divine, on purpose to be made the Game of the Play, and expos'd to the publick Contempt. 1770 J. Cook Voy. & Trav. Russ. Empire I. xxxviii. 180 It went to my heart to..see a good natured countryman made the game of a vain empty fellow. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. xxii. 192 The levity of her conduct has been so notorious as to become the game of a newspaper pasquinade. 1843 Dial Oct. 259 I dare not die In Being's deeps past ear and eye, Lest there I find the same deceiver And be the game of Fate forever. laughing game 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. < as lemmas |
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