单词 | unlaugh |
释义 | unlaughv. rare. transitive. To withdraw or retract (laughter). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > laugh [verb (transitive)] > stop laughing or reverse laughing process unlaugh1533 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vi. p. cccxxiii Tyndale muste of reason geue vs leue to laugh at hys prowde inuented folye. And I shall fynde hym foure suertyes..that at what tyme herafter he proue hym selfe a trewe prophete, I shall vppon reasonable warnynge onlaugh agayne yt all. 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 153 You must unlaugh again this foolish Laughter. 1922 G. K. Chesterton What I saw in Amer. (1923) 6 The remedy is not to unsay what he has said, not even, so to speak, to unlaugh what he has laughed. 1999 K. Grenville Idea of Perfection xix. 257 A laugh once laughed cannot be unlaughed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1533 |
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