laugh

laugh Recorded laughter of a woman (canonical)
laughs (plural)

From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
Cognates
Germanic: (with j-present) Scots lauch, Icelandic hlæja, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish le; (without) Low German lachen, Dutch lachen, German lachen.
Indo-European: Russian клекота́ть (klekotátʹ), клокота́ть (klokotátʹ), клохта́ть (kloxtátʹ) ‘to cluck, cackle’, Ancient Greek κλώζω (klṓzō), κλώσσω (klṓssō) ‘to cackle, clack’, Welsh cloch ‘bell’, possibly Latin glōcīre ‘to cluck’.

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

1803, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of His Life, page 45:

That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.

1869, F. W. Robertson, Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics, page 87:

His deep laughs boomed through the room.

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

lag

expression of mirth peculiar to the human species


bag

→ Japanese: バッグ

→ Korean: 백 (baek)

→ Norwegian: bag

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).

cog

He headed back to the bag.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.


笑

Fourth grade kyōiku kanji (romanization)

笑酒

an alcoholic beverage that puts the drinker into a good mood


ha

Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.

Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.


giraffe

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian سرنا
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffebor.
English giraffe
Borrowed from Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa. Displaced camelopard.

etymon

Are you having a giraffe?!

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


hah

Alternative form of heh (“Semitic letter”)


hah

Mother: Just wait awhile, Susan. Jack said he’d be a little late. […] What would you like to drink, some Coca Cola?
Susan: That’s alright Aunty. We’re going out to dinner.
Mother: Or you prefer Pepsi, hah? We don’t drink Pepsi ourself, I always keep a few bottles just in case. Some people are so fussy.

1989, Eleanor Wong, Jackson on a Jaunt, or, Mistaken Identities, page 5, lines 23–31:

(Manglish, Singlish) Synonym of ah (Sense 1); used to form tag questions prompting the listener to confirm something.

ah

(Manglish, Singlish) Tagged at the end of a sentence to express subtle surprise or realisation.


hah

(Manglish, Singlish) Huh!; used to express subtle surprise or amusement at something said by the other speaker.


laughter

en-noun

laughter (usually uncountable, plural laughters)

laughter a person's laughter (canonical)
laughters (plural)

From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.

cog

Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.

There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.

1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

The act of laughter, which is caused by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:

Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.

1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

ծիծաղ

movement of the muscles of the laughing face


laughter

English: laughter

Scots: lachter, lauchter

From Old English hleahtor, from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz.

She was right swich to seen in hir visage / As is that wight that men on bere binde / Hir face, lyk of Paradys the image / Was al y-chaunged in another kinde. / The pleye, the laughtre men was wont to finde / On hir, and eek hir Ioyes everychone, / Ben fled, and thus lyth now Criseyde allone.

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book IV”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 862–868:

She was such to see in her visage / like that woman that men on a bier notice; / Her face which was the image of Paradise / had totally changed to another kind; / the play, the laughter men tended to find / on her, and all her joys as well / had left, and there Cressida now lies alone.

Laughter; the production of laughs or snickers.


hilarity

en-noun

hilarity (countable and uncountable, plural hilarities)

From Latin hilaritas, "cheerfulness", from adjective hilaris, "cheerful", ultimately from Greek, + noun of state suffix -tas.

Think it not curious if we don't seem to be as sidesplittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it—hilarity at its best—as would be almost mandatory in any film with Miss Holliday.

1999, Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin, Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made:

Many other Latin imports have become staples of our diet, like the burrito, which in Spanish means "little donkey." What other food-related hilarities are we missing out on?

2005, Library journal, volume 130, numbers 8-13, page 122:

(countable) Something that induces much laughter.


chortle

Perhaps a blend of chuckle + snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.

He frequently interrupted himself with chortles while he told us his favorite joke.

A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.


cack

onomatopoeic

Onomatopoeia

Audio (AU)

[…] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley

1950, Field and Stream - Volume 55, page 42:

White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.

2012, Van Campen Heilner, A Book on Duck Shooting:

Branta hutchinsii
Branta hutchinsii#Translingual

(informal) The cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)


cack

en-noun

cack (countable and uncountable, plural cacks)

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation.
Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).

cog

Audio (AU)

I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs.

" And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.


cack

en-verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

cacks (present singular third-person)
cacking (participle present)
cacked (participle past)
cacked (past)

Possibly derived from cackle (“to squawk”, verb), which has semantically shifted to “laughing uncontrollably”.

Audio (AU)

I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.


nicker

onomatopoeic

Imitative


nicker

en-verb

nicker (third-person singular simple present nickers, present participle nickering, simple past and past participle nickered)

nickers (present singular third-person)
nickering (participle present)
nickered (participle past)
nickered (past)

onomatopoeic

Imitative

To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.


nicker

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.


nicker

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“mermaid”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.

And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.

1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, page 48:

A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.


haw

From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).

You think that song was good? Haw!

The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).


marrer

se marrer (infinitive reflexive)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction reflexive)
se marrant (gerund participle present reflexive)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present reflexive)
marré (participle past reflexive)
me marre (first-person indicative present reflexive singular)
te marres (indicative present reflexive second-person singular)
se marre (indicative present reflexive singular third-person)
nous marrons (first-person indicative plural present reflexive)
vous marrez (indicative plural present reflexive second-person)
se marrent (indicative plural present reflexive third-person)
me marrais (first-person imperfect indicative reflexive singular)
te marrais (imperfect indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se marrait (imperfect indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous marrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural reflexive)
vous marriez (imperfect indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se marraient (imperfect indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me marrai (first-person historic indicative past reflexive singular)
te marras (historic indicative past reflexive second-person singular)
se marra (historic indicative past reflexive singular third-person)
nous marrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural reflexive)
vous marrâtes (historic indicative past plural reflexive second-person)
se marrèrent (historic indicative past plural reflexive third-person)
me marrerai (first-person future indicative reflexive singular)
te marreras (future indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se marrera (future indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous marrerons (first-person future indicative plural reflexive)
vous marrerez (future indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se marreront (future indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me marrerais (conditional first-person reflexive singular)
te marrerais (conditional reflexive second-person singular)
se marrerait (conditional reflexive singular third-person)
nous marrerions (conditional first-person plural reflexive)
vous marreriez (conditional plural reflexive second-person)
se marreraient (conditional plural reflexive third-person)
past historic of être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past reflexive)
future of être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect reflexive)
conditional of être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect reflexive)
me marre (first-person present reflexive singular subjunctive)
te marres (present reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se marre (present reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous marrions (first-person plural present reflexive subjunctive)
vous marriez (plural present reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se marrent (plural present reflexive subjunctive third-person)
me marrasse (first-person imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive)
te marrasses (imperfect reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se marrât (imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous marrassions (first-person imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive)
vous marrassiez (imperfect plural reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se marrassent (imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive third-person)
marre-toi (imperative reflexive second-person singular)
marrons-nous (first-person imperative plural reflexive)
marrez-vous (imperative plural reflexive second-person)

Probably borrowed from Spanish marear (“to get dizzy”), with semantic shift "to get dizzy" > "to be bored" > "to be amused" (via antiphrasis).

bor+

J’ sais pas pourquoi j’ me parle toute seule, pourquoi j’ me ris à la gueule ; peut-être que j’aime me marrer.

2018, Zaz (lyrics and music), “J'aime, j'aime”:

I don't know why I'm talking to myself all alone, why I'm laughing in my own face; maybe I like to laugh.

Si les jeux sont faits au son des mascarades, on pourra toujours se marrer.

If the games are played to the sound of masquerades, we could always have fun.

(reflexive, slang) to laugh; to be amused


cachinnate

en-verb

cachinnate (third-person singular simple present cachinnates, present participle cachinnating, simple past and past participle cachinnated)

cachinnates (present singular third-person)
cachinnating (participle present)
cachinnated (participle past)
cachinnated (past)

From Latin cachinnō (“laugh aloud”), of onomatopoeic origin.

The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.

There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.

1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:

(intransitive) To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.


giggle

giggle (third-person singular simple present giggles, present participle giggling, simple past and past participle giggled)

giggles (present singular third-person)
giggling (participle present)
giggled (participle past)
giggled (past)

Early 16th century, probably of imitative origin.
Or, perhaps a frequentative based on dialectal English gig (“to creak”), from Middle English gigen (“to make a creaking sound”) + -le; or perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin: compare Saterland Frisian güüchelje (“to giggle”), West Frisian giechelje (“to giggle”), Dutch giechelen (“to giggle”), German Low German giecheln (“to giggle”), dialectal German giggln, gigglen (“to giggle”), German gickeln (“to giggle”). All of these words are likely onomatopoeic as well. Also compare Alemannic German Guege (“fiddle”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.


giggle

onomatopoeic

imitative

My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!

1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.

The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

For my first English breakfast I had kippers and pink champagne - what a combination, still it was a bit of a giggle and I know I've really arrived.

2013, Patricia Newell-Dunkley, Letters of a Travelling Lady, page 16:


わらう

ja-verb

わらう • (warau) godan (stem わらい (warai), past わらった (waratta))

warau (romanization)
わらい (stem)
わらった (past)

笑う, 咲う, 嗤う: to laugh; to smile; to bloom; to ripen and open; to come undone; to ridicule or make fun of; (slang) to go wobbly (as in the knees)


risible

en-adj

risible (comparative more risible, superlative most risible)

more risible (comparative)
most risible (superlative)

From Middle French risible and directly from Late Latin rīsibilis, from Latin rīsus (“laughter”) + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).

the risible muscles

A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth.

1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 20, in Hocken and Hunken:

"[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 277:

Do you find it risible when I say the name, 'Biggus Dickus'?

1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin):

Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.

2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14:

Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant

We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing is our main buſiniſs; as if becauſe it has bin made part of the Definition of man, that he his Riſible, his man-hood conſiſted in nothing elſe.

1674, Anonymous [Richard Allestree?], “Of Scoffing and Deriſion”, in The Government of the Tongue, At the Theater in Oxford, page 119:

She was half risible, half concerned.

1897, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Well-Beloved:

(of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter


risible

Learned borrowing from Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).


risible

es-adj

risible m or f (masculine and feminine plural risibles)

Borrowed from Late Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).


muahahaha

Comes from the natural sound mu and the laughing sound hahaha, repeating.

(onomatopoeia) A conventionally evil laugh, as used by a supervillain.


snicker

(cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.


rir

pt-verb

rir (first-person singular present rio, first-person singular preterite ri, past participle rido)

rio (first-person present singular)
ri (first-person preterite singular)
rido (participle past)
rir (impersonal infinitive)
rir (first-person infinitive singular)
rires (infinitive second-person singular)
rir (infinitive singular third-person)
rirmos (first-person infinitive plural)
rirdes (infinitive plural second-person)
rirem (infinitive plural third-person)
rindo (gerund)
rido (masculine participle past singular)
ridos (masculine participle past plural)
rida (feminine participle past singular)
ridas (feminine participle past plural)
rio (first-person indicative present singular)
ris (indicative present second-person singular)
ri (indicative present singular third-person)
rimos (first-person indicative plural present)
rides (indicative plural present second-person)
riem (indicative plural present third-person)
ria (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ria (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ríamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ríeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
riam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ri (first-person indicative preterite singular)
riste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
riu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
rimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ristes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
riram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
rira (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
riras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
rira (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ríramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
ríreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
riram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
rirei (first-person future indicative singular)
rirás (future indicative second-person singular)
rirá (future indicative singular third-person)
riremos (first-person future indicative plural)
rireis (future indicative plural second-person)
rirão (future indicative plural third-person)
riria (conditional first-person singular)
ririas (conditional second-person singular)
riria (conditional singular third-person)
riríamos (conditional first-person plural)
riríeis (conditional plural second-person)
ririam (conditional plural third-person)
ria (first-person present singular subjunctive)
rias (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ria (present singular subjunctive third-person)
riamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
riais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
riam (plural present subjunctive third-person)
risse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
risses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
risse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ríssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rísseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rissem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
rir (first-person future singular subjunctive)
rires (future second-person singular subjunctive)
rir (future singular subjunctive third-person)
rirmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
rirdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
rirem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
ri (imperative second-person singular)
ria (imperative singular third-person)
riamos (first-person imperative plural)
ride (imperative plural second-person)
riam (imperative plural third-person)
não rias (imperative negative second-person singular)
não ria (imperative negative singular third-person)
não riamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não riais (imperative negative plural second-person)
não riam (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Old Galician-Portuguese riir, from Vulgar Latin *rīdīre, from Latin rīdēre.

Passei horas rindo.

Rimo-nos muito daquele filme.

(pronominal) to laugh (to express mirth or derision by emitting chuckling sounds) [with de ‘at someone/something’]


rir

From Late Latin rīdere, from Latin rīdēre

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) to laugh


kink

From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).

cog

(Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.


lachen

lachen (infinitive)
lachen (gerund neuter)
lach (first-person present singular)
lachte (first-person past singular)
lacht (present second-person singular)
lach (present second-person singular)
lachte (past second-person singular)
lacht (formal present second-person singular)
lachte (formal past second-person singular)
lacht (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
lacht (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
lachte (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
lachte (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
lacht (present singular third-person)
lachte (past singular third-person)
lachen (plural present)
lachten (past plural)
lache (archaic present singular subjunctive)
lachte (archaic past singular subjunctive)
lachen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
lachten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
lach (imperative present singular)
lacht (archaic imperative plural present)
lachend (participle present)
gelachen (participle past)

Afrikaans: lag

Berbice Creole Dutch: laki

Javindo: lach, lag, lah

Negerhollands: lach, lak

Petjo: lahen

From Middle Dutch lachen, from Old Dutch *lahhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.


ridar

head

ridar (present tense ridas, past tense ridis, future tense ridos, imperative ridez, conditional ridus)

ridas (present)
ridis (past)
tense ridos (future)
ridez (imperative)
ridus (conditional)
ridar (infinitive present)
ridir (infinitive past)
ridor (future infinitive)
ridas (present)
ridis (past)
ridos (future)
ridus (conditional present)
ridez (imperative present)
ridanta (active adjective participle present)
ridinta (active adjective participle past)
ridonta (active adjective future participle)
ridante (active adverbial participle present)
ridinte (active adverbial participle past)
ridonte (active adverbial future participle)
ridanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
ridinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
ridonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
ridanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
ridinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
ridonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)


haha

From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.

An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.


snigger

British variant pronunciation and spelling of snicker.

Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 255:

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A partly suppressed or broken laugh.

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A sly or snide laugh.


snigger

en-verb

snigger (third-person singular simple present sniggers, present participle sniggering, simple past and past participle sniggered)

sniggers (present singular third-person)
sniggering (participle present)
sniggered (participle past)
sniggered (past)

[…]presently the Mole's spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance.

1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 22:

Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

(intransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To emit a snigger.


guffaw

Early 18th century, originally Scots, probably onomatopoeic.

On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.

1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter XX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:

He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.

1936, Robert E. Howard, chapter 15, in The Hour of the Dragon:

When Time magazine named Ann Coulter among its 100 "most influential people" last week, alongside such heavyweights as Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Kim Jong Il and the Dalai Lama, the choice produced guffaws online.

2005 April 19, Eric Boehlert, “Time hearts Ann Coulter”, in Salon, archived from the original on 2006-05-17:


mdr

Initialism of mort de rire (literally “dead of laughter”).

initialism

mdr c trop bon ça


reír

es-verb

reír (first-person singular present río, first-person singular preterite reí, past participle reído)

río (first-person present singular)
reí (first-person preterite singular)
reído (participle past)
reír (infinitive)
riendo (gerund)
reído (masculine participle past singular)
reída (feminine participle past singular)
reídos (masculine participle past plural)
reídas (feminine participle past plural)
río (first-person indicative present singular)
ríes (indicative informal present second-person singular)
reís (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
ríe (indicative present singular third-person)
reímos (first-person indicative plural present)
reís (indicative plural present second-person)
ríen (indicative plural present third-person)
reía (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
reías (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
reía (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
reíamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
reíais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
reían (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
reí (first-person indicative preterite singular)
reíste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
rio (indicative preterite singular third-person)
reímos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
reísteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
rieron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
reiré (first-person future indicative singular)
reirás (future indicative second-person singular)
reirá (future indicative singular third-person)
reiremos (first-person future indicative plural)
reiréis (future indicative plural second-person)
reirán (future indicative plural third-person)
reiría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
reirías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
reiría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
reiríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
reiríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
reirían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
ría (first-person present singular subjunctive)
rías (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
rias (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
ría (present singular subjunctive third-person)
riamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
riais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
rían (plural present subjunctive third-person)
riera (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
rieras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
riera (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
riéramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rierais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rieran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
riese (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
rieses (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
riese (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
riésemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
rieseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
riesen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
riere (first-person future singular subjunctive)
rieres (future second-person singular subjunctive)
riere (future singular subjunctive third-person)
riéremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
riereis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
rieren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
ríe (imperative informal second-person singular)
reí (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
ría (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ría (imperative singular third-person)
riamos (first-person imperative plural)
reíd (imperative plural second-person)
rían (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
rían (imperative plural third-person)
rías (imperative negative second-person singular)
ría (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ría (imperative negative singular third-person)
riamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
riais (imperative negative plural second-person)
rían (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
rían (imperative negative plural third-person)
reírme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
reírte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
reírle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
reírse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
reírnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
reíros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
reírles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
reírse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
reírme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
reírte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
reírlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
reírla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
reírse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
reírnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
reíros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
reírlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
reírlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
reírse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
riéndome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
riéndote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
riéndole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
riéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
riéndonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
riéndoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
riéndoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
riéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
riéndome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
riéndote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
riéndolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
riéndola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
riéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
riéndonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
riéndoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
riéndolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
riéndolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
riéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
ríeme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ríete (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ríele (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ríenos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
ríeles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ríeme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ríete (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ríelo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ríela (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ríenos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
ríelos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ríelas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
reíme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
reíte (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
reíle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
reínos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
reíles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
reíme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
reíte (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
reílo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
reíla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
reínos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
reílos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
reílas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
ríame (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
ríale (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ríase (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ríanos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
ríales (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
ríame (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
ríalo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ríala (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ríase (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ríanos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
ríalos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
ríalas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
riámoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
riámosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
riámonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
riámoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
riámosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
riámoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
riámoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
riámosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
riámonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
riámoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
riámoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
riámoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
reídme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
reídle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
reídnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
reíos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
reídles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
reídme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
reídlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
reídla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
reídnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
reíos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
reídlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
reídlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ríanle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ríannos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ríanles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanse (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ríanlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ríannos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ríanlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ríanse (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *rīdīre (with dissimilation?), from Latin rīdēre.


uproarious

en-adj

uproarious (comparative more uproarious, superlative most uproarious)

more uproarious (comparative)
most uproarious (superlative)

/ʌpˈɹɔː.ɹɪ.əs/

/ˌʌpˈɹɔ.ɹi.əs/

From uproar + -ious (a variant of -ous (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance”)).

The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, […] every child was conducting itself like forty. The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 68–69:

One "set" off, another takes its place, he or she remaining longest on the floor receiving the most uproarious commendation, and so the dancing continues until broad daylight. It does not cease with the sound of the fiddle, but in that case they set up a music peculiar to themselves.

1853, Solomon Northup, chapter XV, in [David Wilson], editor, Twelve Years a Slave. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, →OCLC, page 219:

The two bushes looked up in surprise, and when they saw Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and Sir Hokus, they fell into each other's branches and burst into the most uproarious laughter.

1921, L[yman] Frank Baum [actually Ruth Plumly Thompson], “Dorothy and Sir Hokus Come to Fix City”, in The Royal Book of Oz […], Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Lee Co., →OCLC, page 165:

At the uproarious cheering which greeted his appearance, [Maximilien] Robespierre advanced into the open, whilst a sudden swift light of triumph darted from his narrow, pale eyes.

1922 August, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “One Crowded Hour of Glorious Life”, in The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, § 1, page 62:

Characterized by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.

шумен

characterised by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter


mort de rire

fr-adj

mort de rire (feminine morte de rire, masculine plural morts de rire, feminine plural mortes de rire)

morte de rire (feminine)
morts de rire (masculine plural)
mortes de rire (feminine plural)

/mɔʁ də ʁiʁ/

Tout le monde était mort de rire après cette blague.

Everyone was dying laughing after that joke.


titter

en-verb

titter (third-person singular simple present titters, present participle tittering, simple past and past participle tittered)

titters (present singular third-person)
tittering (participle present)
tittered (participle past)
tittered (past)

First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in Middle English titering (“hesitation, vacillation”)), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (“to waver”), related to Old Norse titra (“to shake, shiver, quiver”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to snicker”).

cog

1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily
A group of tittering pages ran before.

"Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70:

Nor had the joke been a vulgar one: it was the kind of elegant pleasantry that the minister of foreign affairs might have told the crown prince at a garden party a generation ago, causing the surrounding listeners to titter with delight.

1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 363:

To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.

хихикам

to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner


titter

April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.


sidesplitting

en-adj

sidesplitting (comparative more sidesplitting, superlative most sidesplitting)

more sidesplitting (comparative)
most sidesplitting (superlative)

We saw a sidesplitting film last night.


giechelen

giechelen (infinitive)
giechelen (gerund neuter)
giechel (first-person present singular)
giechelde (first-person past singular)
giechelt (present second-person singular)
giechel (present second-person singular)
giechelde (past second-person singular)
giechelt (formal present second-person singular)
giechelde (formal past second-person singular)
giechelt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
giechelt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
giechelde (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
giechelde (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
giechelt (present singular third-person)
giechelde (past singular third-person)
giechelen (plural present)
giechelden (past plural)
giechele (archaic present singular subjunctive)
giechelde (archaic past singular subjunctive)
giechelen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
giechelden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
giechel (imperative present singular)
giechelt (archaic imperative plural present)
giechelend (participle present)
gegiecheld (participle past)

Origin obscure. Likely from Middle Dutch gijgen (“to pant, wheeze, giggle”) + -elen. Compare German Low German giechelen (“to giggle”), dialectal German giggln, gigglen (“to giggle”), Middle High German gickelen (“to ridicule, mock”), Old High German kichezzen (“to laugh”), German gicksen (“to shriek, shrill”). All of these words are likely ultimate of imitative origin.

unk

obscure

onomatopoeic

imitative


esclaffer

s'esclaffer (infinitive)
s'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
s’esclaffant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
esclaffé (participle past)
m’esclaffe (first-person indicative present singular)
t’esclaffes (indicative present second-person singular)
s’esclaffe (indicative present singular third-person)
nous esclaffons (first-person indicative plural present)
vous esclaffez (indicative plural present second-person)
s’esclaffent (indicative plural present third-person)
m’esclaffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
t’esclaffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
s’esclaffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nous esclaffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vous esclaffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
s’esclaffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
m’esclaffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
t’esclaffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
s’esclaffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
nous esclaffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vous esclaffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
s’esclaffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
m’esclafferai (first-person future indicative singular)
t’esclafferas (future indicative second-person singular)
s’esclaffera (future indicative singular third-person)
nous esclafferons (first-person future indicative plural)
vous esclafferez (future indicative plural second-person)
s’esclafferont (future indicative plural third-person)
m’esclafferais (conditional first-person singular)
t’esclafferais (conditional second-person singular)
s’esclafferait (conditional singular third-person)
nous esclafferions (conditional first-person plural)
vous esclafferiez (conditional plural second-person)
s’esclafferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of s'être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of s'être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
m’esclaffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
t’esclaffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
s’esclaffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nous esclaffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vous esclaffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
s’esclaffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
m’esclaffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
t’esclaffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
s’esclaffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nous esclaffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vous esclaffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
s’esclaffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
esclaffe-toi (imperative second-person singular)
esclaffons-nous (first-person imperative plural)
esclaffez-vous (imperative plural second-person)

(always pronominal) to burst out in laughter


risa

Inherited from Latin rīsa, neuter plural perfect passive participle of rīdeō. Also possibly gender-flipped from risus, which means "laughter".


glimlach

nl-noun

glimlach m (plural glimlachen, diminutive glimlachje n)

glimlachen (plural)
glimlachje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: glimlag

From glimmen (“to glow; shine”) + lach, perhaps euphemistically remodelling an older form, grimlach, which carried a somewhat negative connotation.


lach

lach m (uncountable, diminutive lachje n)


bubble bath

en-noun

bubble bath (countable and uncountable, plural bubble baths)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bubble bath.wav

A bath in which an additive, usually soap, is poured directly into the water that creates bubbles; a foam bath.

泡泡浴

bath in which an additive is poured into the water to create bubbles

The product poured in the bath to create those bubbles.

Are you having a bubble bath?!


cackle

en-verb

cackle (third-person singular simple present cackles, present participle cackling, simple past and past participle cackled)

cackles (present singular third-person)
cackling (participle present)
cackled (participle past)
cackled (past)

From Middle English caclen, cakelen, perhaps from Old English *caclian, *cacolian, from Proto-West Germanic *kakulōn, *kakilōn (“to cackle, gaggle, yelp, snarl”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kakelen (“to cackle”), German Low German kakeln (“to cackle”), German kakeln (“to blather”), Danish kagle (“to cackle”), Swedish kackla (“to cackle”). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ċeahhettan (“to laugh loudly; cackle”), German gackern (“to cackle”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

When every goose is cackling.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

I heard a grey hen cackling among the ling; I called and thought, "If I could get a sight of you now, it would be your last cackle;" just then I heard something moving behind me on the path.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:

(intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

крякам

to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does


笑う

ja-verb

笑(わら)う • (warau) ^(←わらふ (warafu)?)intransitive godan (stem 笑(わら)い (warai), past 笑(わら)った (waratta))

笑う (canonical)
warau (romanization)
warafu (romanization)
笑い (stem)
笑った (past)

Derived from verb 割る (waru, “to split, to break, to crack”), as imperfect form wara- + auxiliary verb ふ (fu, indicating repetition or ongoing state: modern verb ending う u): "to be in the act of cracking up / breaking open".

微笑 下音焼 訓和良布

Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN

to spontaneously express joy or amusement by means of the voice or facial expression:

マイクはよく笑いますよね。

縫い目が笑っている


笑う

笑(わら)う • (warau) ^(←わらふ (warafu)?)transitive godan (stem 笑(わら)い (warai), past 笑(わら)った (waratta))

笑う (canonical)
warau (romanization)
warafu (romanization)
笑い (stem)
笑った (past)
笑わ
わらわ
warawa
笑い
わらい
warai
笑う
わらう
warau
笑え
わらえ
warae
笑われる (passive)
わらわれる (passive)
warawareru (passive)
笑わせる (causative)
笑わす (causative)
わらわせる (causative)
わらわす (causative)
warawaseru (causative)
warawasu (causative)
笑える (potential)
わらえる (potential)
waraeru (potential)
笑おう (volitional)
わらおう (volitional)
waraō (volitional)
笑わない (negative)
わらわない (negative)
warawanai (negative)
笑わず (continuative negative)
わらわず (continuative negative)
warawazu (continuative negative)
笑います (formal)
わらいます (formal)
waraimasu (formal)
笑った (perfective)
わらった (perfective)
waratta (perfective)
笑って (conjunctive)
わらって (conjunctive)
waratte (conjunctive)
笑えば (conditional hypothetical)
わらえば (conditional hypothetical)
waraeba (conditional hypothetical)

ジュディは私を笑った。

Judy laughed at me / made fun of me / made a fool of me.

to laugh at, to make fun of, to make a fool of

笑薬

a drug or medicine that makes someone laugh for no reason

笑尉

in Noh theatre, the traditional mask of a smiling man

笑い皺

a laugh line, a facial wrinkle from smiling

so called for the spontaneous laughter it causes when eaten due to its neurotoxic effect

笑い本: a book of 笑い絵: a book of funny picture

笑翡翠

Dacelo novaeguineae, the laughing kookaburra

a repository for sūtras and chronicles of a temple's history

statues of ancient poets of similar appearance and placed in front of a 経蔵

笑う顔に矢立たず: → someone approaching in friendship will not be fired upon

笑う顔は打たれぬ: → someone approaching in friendship will not be attacked

you can't take the measure of a smiling man

笑うものは測るべからず: → someone who is always smiling is hard to read

and may thus be more predator than pal: be wary of charmer

crying three months" → a metaphorical rule of thumb for how long it takes to learn proper expression in the traditional 義太夫 style of dramatic recital

to sharpen a sword while laughing / smiling

笑いの内に刀を礪ぐ: → to make oneself appear happy while thinking hostile thoughts

笑って損するは箔屋ばかり: → if an embosser laughs

the only one to make a loss on laughing is an embosser

the gold foil they work with would go flying

笑って暮らすも一生泣いて暮らすも一生

waratte kurasu mo isshō naite kurasu mo isshō

naite kurasu mo isshō waratte kurasu mo isshō

泣いて暮らすも一生笑って暮らすも一生: "you can live crying

warawazareba motte michi to nasu ni tarazu

笑わざれば以て道と為すに足らず: "if it's not laughed at

it's not enough to be the right way" → from the way a fool will laugh when told the way to do something

so if it's not enough for even a fool to laugh at


tawa

id-conj-base

This verb however, takes the prefix ter- in locative and benefactive. For some reasons, some forms of the locative do not exist. Ketawa only exists in informal language.

tawa (root)
tertawa (active involuntary)
ketawa (active involuntary)
tawa (active)
tawalah (active)
menertawai (active locative)
ditertawai (involuntary locative passive)
menertawakan (active applicative causative)
tertawakan (applicative causative)
ditertawakan (applicative causative passive)
tertawakan (applicative causative)
tawakan (applicative causative)
tertawakanlah (applicative causative)
mempertawa (active causative)
mempertawai (active causative locative)
dipertawai (causative involuntary locative passive)
mempertawakan (active applicative causative)
dipertawakan (applicative causative passive)

From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)


tawa

Indonesian: tawa

From Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.


tawa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa. Compare Malay tawa.


asal

Etymology tree
Sanskrit हस् (has)
Sanskrit हसति (hasati)
Prakrit 𑀳𑀲𑀇 (hasaï)
Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï)
Romani asal
Inherited from Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï), from Prakrit 𑀳𑀲𑀇 (hasaï), from Sanskrit हसति (hásati). Cognate with Hindi हँसना (hãsnā).

etymon

Sosqe asan manθar?


ricaner

ricaner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
ricanant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
ricané (participle past)
ricane (first-person indicative present singular)
ricanes (indicative present second-person singular)
ricane (indicative present singular third-person)
ricanons (first-person indicative plural present)
ricanez (indicative plural present second-person)
ricanent (indicative plural present third-person)
ricanais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ricanais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ricanait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ricanions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ricaniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ricanaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ricanai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ricanas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
ricana (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ricanâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
ricanâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
ricanèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ricanerai (first-person future indicative singular)
ricaneras (future indicative second-person singular)
ricanera (future indicative singular third-person)
ricanerons (first-person future indicative plural)
ricanerez (future indicative plural second-person)
ricaneront (future indicative plural third-person)
ricanerais (conditional first-person singular)
ricanerais (conditional second-person singular)
ricanerait (conditional singular third-person)
ricanerions (conditional first-person plural)
ricaneriez (conditional plural second-person)
ricaneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
ricane (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ricanes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ricane (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ricanions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ricaniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ricanent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ricanasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ricanasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ricanât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ricanassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ricanassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ricanassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ricane (imperative second-person singular)
ricanons (first-person imperative plural)
ricanez (imperative plural second-person)


carcajearse

es-verb

carcajearse (first-person singular present me carcajeo, first-person singular preterite me carcajeé, past participle carcajeado)

me carcajeo (first-person present singular)
me carcajeé (first-person preterite singular)
carcajeado (participle past)
carcajearse (infinitive)
carcajeándose (gerund)
carcajeado (masculine participle past singular)
carcajeada (feminine participle past singular)
carcajeados (masculine participle past plural)
carcajeadas (feminine participle past plural)
carcajearme (first-person infinitive singular)
carcajearte (infinitive second-person singular)
carcajearse (infinitive singular third-person)
carcajearnos (first-person infinitive plural)
carcajearos (infinitive plural second-person)
carcajearse (infinitive plural third-person)
carcajeándome (first-person gerund singular)
carcajeándote (gerund second-person singular)
carcajeándose (gerund singular third-person)
carcajeándonos (first-person gerund plural)
carcajeándoos (gerund plural second-person)
carcajeándose (gerund plural third-person)
me carcajeo (first-person indicative present singular)
te carcajeas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
te carcajeás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
se carcajea (indicative present singular third-person)
nos carcajeamos (first-person indicative plural present)
os carcajeáis (indicative plural present second-person)
se carcajean (indicative plural present third-person)
me carcajeaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
te carcajeabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
se carcajeaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nos carcajeábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
os carcajeabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
se carcajeaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
me carcajeé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
te carcajeaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
se carcajeó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nos carcajeamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
os carcajeasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
se carcajearon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
me carcajearé (first-person future indicative singular)
te carcajearás (future indicative second-person singular)
se carcajeará (future indicative singular third-person)
nos carcajearemos (first-person future indicative plural)
os carcajearéis (future indicative plural second-person)
se carcajearán (future indicative plural third-person)
me carcajearía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
te carcajearías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
se carcajearía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
nos carcajearíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
os carcajearíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
se carcajearían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
me carcajee (first-person present singular subjunctive)
te carcajees (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
te carcajeés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
se carcajee (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nos carcajeemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
os carcajeéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
se carcajeen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
me carcajeara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
te carcajearas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
se carcajeara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nos carcajeáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
os carcajearais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
se carcajearan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
me carcajease (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
te carcajeases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
se carcajease (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
nos carcajeásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
os carcajeaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
se carcajeasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
me carcajeare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
te carcajeares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
se carcajeare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
nos carcajeáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
os carcajeareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
se carcajearen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
carcajéate (imperative informal second-person singular)
carcajeate (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
carcajéese (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
carcajéese (imperative singular third-person)
carcajeémonos (first-person imperative plural)
carcajeaos (imperative plural second-person)
carcajéense (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
carcajéense (imperative plural third-person)
te carcajees (imperative negative second-person singular)
se carcajee (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
se carcajee (imperative negative singular third-person)
nos carcajeemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
os carcajeéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
se carcajeen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
se carcajeen (imperative negative plural third-person)

(reflexive) to laugh heartily or heavily; to cackle; to bust up or be in stitches


glimlachen

glimlachen (infinitive)
glimlachen (gerund neuter)
glimlach (first-person present singular)
glimlachte (first-person past singular)
glimlacht (present second-person singular)
glimlach (present second-person singular)
glimlachte (past second-person singular)
glimlacht (formal present second-person singular)
glimlachte (formal past second-person singular)
glimlacht (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
glimlacht (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
glimlachte (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
glimlachte (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
glimlacht (present singular third-person)
glimlachte (past singular third-person)
glimlachen (plural present)
glimlachten (past plural)
glimlache (archaic present singular subjunctive)
glimlachte (archaic past singular subjunctive)
glimlachen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
glimlachten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
glimlach (imperative present singular)
glimlacht (archaic imperative plural present)
glimlachend (participle present)
geglimlacht (participle past)

Afrikaans: glimlag


evil laugh

A signature laugh associated with villains in films and acting, sometimes represented as muahahaha or bwahaha.


evil laughter

There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.

The stereotypical laughter produced by a villain, frequently represented as muahahaha or bwahaha.


risata

From riso (“laughter”) + -ata (verbal noun suffix).


cacarear

es-verb

cacarear (first-person singular present cacareo, first-person singular preterite cacareé, past participle cacareado)

cacareo (first-person present singular)
cacareé (first-person preterite singular)
cacareado (participle past)
cacarear (infinitive)
cacareando (gerund)
cacareado (masculine participle past singular)
cacareada (feminine participle past singular)
cacareados (masculine participle past plural)
cacareadas (feminine participle past plural)
cacareo (first-person indicative present singular)
cacareas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
cacareás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
cacarea (indicative present singular third-person)
cacareamos (first-person indicative plural present)
cacareáis (indicative plural present second-person)
cacarean (indicative plural present third-person)
cacareaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cacareabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cacareaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cacareábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
cacareabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cacareaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cacareé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cacareaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
cacareó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
cacareamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
cacareasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
cacarearon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
cacarearé (first-person future indicative singular)
cacarearás (future indicative second-person singular)
cacareará (future indicative singular third-person)
cacarearemos (first-person future indicative plural)
cacarearéis (future indicative plural second-person)
cacarearán (future indicative plural third-person)
cacarearía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
cacarearías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
cacarearía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
cacarearíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
cacarearíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
cacarearían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
cacaree (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cacarees (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
cacareés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
cacaree (present singular subjunctive third-person)
cacareemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
cacareéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
cacareen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cacareara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cacarearas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cacareara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cacareáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cacarearais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cacarearan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cacarease (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
cacareases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
cacarease (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
cacareásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
cacareaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
cacareasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
cacareare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
cacareares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
cacareare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
cacareáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
cacareareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
cacarearen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
cacarea (imperative informal second-person singular)
cacareá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
cacaree (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
cacaree (imperative singular third-person)
cacareemos (first-person imperative plural)
cacaread (imperative plural second-person)
cacareen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
cacareen (imperative plural third-person)
cacarees (imperative negative second-person singular)
cacaree (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
cacaree (imperative negative singular third-person)
cacareemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
cacareéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
cacareen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
cacareen (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Latin cucurire, which is imitative.

como el gallo de Morón, sin pluma y cacareando

No faltan más que el agua bendita y el hisopo,
para mugir las cándidas consejas del pesebre
y cacarear en ronda las fábulas de Esopo.

a. 1910, Julio Herrera y Reissig, La granja:

(transitive) to boast about, to exaggerate the importance of

(intransitive) to cackle; to laugh loudly

Mientras se acercaban la una a la otra, Belén notó que la gallina iba cacareando

2023, Daniel A. Olivas, Cómo Salir con un Mexicano Volador: Relatos Nuevos y Escogidos:


humors

humors (nominative singular)
humora (genitive singular)
humoram (dative singular)
humoru (accusative singular)
humoru (instrumental singular)
humorā (locative singular)
humor (singular vocative)

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin umor (“moisture”), from the ancient theory that the moods and dispositions of the human psyche were related to bodily fluids.

labsirdīgs humors

humora dzirksts

humora izjūta

cilvēks ar humora izjūtu

viņa balsī jūtama humora pieskaņa

in his voice one can feel a touch of humor

zvejas vīru humoru netraucē ne vētra, ne arī nemīlīgs laiks

neither storms nor inclement weather can disturb the humor of fishermen

viņš visu prot pateikt ar humoru, un mēs smejamies

he knows how to say everything with humor, and we laugh

humor (good-natured, playful attitude; the capacity to recognize and understand what is funny or comical)


hee

"Good evening, Kristen," said I; "what are you telling that creates such fun?" "Hee, hee, hee!" screamed the youngsters, with great glee depicted in their faces; "Kristen has told us about the smith and the devil, and then about the lad who got him into the nut, and now he says he's going to tell us about Peter Sannum, whose horse the fairies stopped on the Asmyr hill."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251:

(onomatopoeia) An expression of laughter.


humorists

lv-noun

humorists m (1st declension, feminine form: humoriste)

humoriste (feminine)
humorists (nominative singular)
humoristi (nominative plural)
humorista (genitive singular)
humoristu (genitive plural)
humoristam (dative singular)
humoristiem (dative plural)
humoristu (accusative singular)
humoristus (accusative plural)
humoristu (instrumental singular)
humoristiem (instrumental plural)
humoristā (locative singular)
humoristos (locative plural)
humorist (singular vocative)
humoristi (plural vocative)

From humors (“humor”) + -ists. Probably not formed as such in Latvian, but borrowed and adapted from other European languages.

humorista asais skatiens atrod visapslēptākās cilvēka vājības, pamana simtiem to izpausmes veidu un variantu

a humorist/comedian's sharp look finds the innermost human weaknesses and sees hundreds of forms and variations of their expression

humorist, comedian (a (male) artist who portrays the world in a comic, humorous way)


哈哈

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

哈哈鏡

哈哈镜

(onomatopoeia) the sound of someone laughing out loud


哈哈

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

哈哈笑

哈哈笑


哈哈

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ ha⁴⁴/


呵呵

/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/

/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/

Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).

Recently I wrote some little ci poems. Though hardly comparable to Mister Liu's style, they're in my own character. Haha!

c. late 11th century, Su Shi (蘇軾), Letter to Xianyu Zijun (《與鮮于子駿》)

Jìn zuò xiǎocí, suīwú Liǔ Qīláng fēngwèi, yì zìshì yījiā. Hēhē!

近作小詞，雖無柳七郎風味，亦自是一家。呵呵！

近作小词，虽无柳七郎风味，亦自是一家。呵呵！


ржать

ru-verb

ржать • (ržatʹ) impf (perfective заржа́ть)

ržatʹ (romanization)
заржа́ть (perfective)
ржа́ть (imperfective infinitive)
ржу́щий (active participle present)
ржа́вший (active participle past)
ржа́в (adverbial participle past)
ржа́вши (adverbial participle past)
ржу́ (first-person present singular)
бу́ду ржа́ть (first-person future singular)
ржёшь (present second-person singular)
бу́дешь ржа́ть (future second-person singular)
ржёт (present singular third-person)
бу́дет ржа́ть (future singular third-person)
ржём (first-person plural present)
бу́дем ржа́ть (first-person future plural)
ржёте (plural present second-person)
бу́дете ржа́ть (future plural second-person)
ржу́т (plural present third-person)
бу́дут ржа́ть (future plural third-person)
ржи́ (imperative singular)
ржи́те (imperative plural)
ржа́л (masculine past singular)
ржа́ли (masculine past plural)
ржа́ла (feminine past singular)
ржа́ли (feminine past plural)
ржа́ло (neuter past singular)
ржа́ли (neuter past plural)

Inherited Old East Slavic ръзати (rŭzati), from Proto-Slavic *rъzati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewǵ-. Cognate with Czech ržát.

ло́шадь ржёт

ржу! ― ržu! ― lol!


laughing stock

From laughing + stock (“source, supply; butt, target”). Compare also whipping-stock, jesting-stock.

compound

Pray you let us not be
laughing-stocks to other men's humours.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.

1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs.

2004 September 12, Judy Battista, “Pro Football: NFL Matchups, Week 1”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-04-19:

The split was supposedly triggered by racism — specifically anti-Jewish racism. But on this front, the Independent Group have already become a laughingstock.

2019 February 19, Annie Cohen, 'Yes, There’s Anti-Semitism In Labour. No, Those Politicians Didn’t Quit Over It.', The Forward (retrieved 21 February 2019)

Toronto Transit Corporation had real issues. [...] My boss was removed in a coup three months after my arrival. I stood in and my learning curve went through the roof. Over five years, we went from being a laughing stock to winning awards.

2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 54:

(idiomatic) An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke.


bwahaha

Bwahaha, they guffaw as they crush overheads into the corners with the same disdain they display when the clown ahead of them at the airport car-rental counter rents a Hyundai.

2002, Dave Whitehead, The Tennis Junkie's Guide (to Serious Humor), page 41:

“Bwa-ha-ha-ha,” came the unholy mirth from the cold white mask.

2005, Ron Fortier, Brother Grim, page 142:

written with spaces between the syllables

more additional instances of ha to the end

or by adding additional instances of the letter a in any syllable

(onomatopoeia, slang) Literary device used to express a fit of overwhelming or uncontrollable laughter, most frequently with a sinister connotation, see: evil laugh.


ilarità

Borrowed from Latin hilaritātem, derived from hilaris (“cheerful”).

(uncountable, uncommon) hilarity (happiness)


smuilen

smuilen (infinitive)
smuilen (gerund neuter)
smuil (first-person present singular)
smuilde (first-person past singular)
smuilt (present second-person singular)
smuil (present second-person singular)
smuilde (past second-person singular)
smuilt (formal present second-person singular)
smuilde (formal past second-person singular)
smuilt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
smuilt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
smuilde (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
smuilde (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
smuilt (present singular third-person)
smuilde (past singular third-person)
smuilen (plural present)
smuilden (past plural)
smuile (archaic present singular subjunctive)
smuilde (archaic past singular subjunctive)
smuilen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
smuilden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
smuil (imperative present singular)
smuilt (archaic imperative plural present)
smuilend (participle present)
gesmuild (participle past)

First attested 1691, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *smīlijaną.


웃기다

ko-verb

웃기다 • (utgida) (infinitive 웃겨 or 웃기어, sequential 웃기니)

utgida (romanization)
웃겨 (infinitive)
웃기어 (infinitive)
웃기니 (sequential)
웃긴다 (formal indicative non-past)
웃겨 (indicative informal non-past)
웃겨요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃기어요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃깁니다 (formal indicative non-past polite)
웃겼다 (formal indicative past)
웃겼어 (indicative informal past)
웃겼어요 (indicative informal past polite)
웃겼습니다 (formal indicative past polite)
웃기느냐 (formal interrogative non-past)
웃겨 (informal interrogative non-past)
웃겨요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃기어요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃깁니까 (formal interrogative non-past polite)
웃겼느냐 (formal interrogative past)
웃겼어 (informal interrogative past)
웃겼어요 (informal interrogative past polite)
웃겼습니까 (formal interrogative past polite)
웃기자 (formal hortative)
웃겨 (hortative informal)
웃겨요 (hortative informal polite)
웃기어요 (hortative informal polite)
웃기십시다 (formal hortative polite)
웃겨라 (formal imperative)
웃기어라 (formal imperative)
웃겨 (imperative informal)
웃겨요 (imperative informal polite)
웃기어요 (imperative informal polite)
웃깁시오 (formal imperative polite)
웃기겠다 (assertive formal)
웃기겠어 (assertive informal)
웃기겠어요 (assertive informal polite)
웃기겠습니다 (assertive formal polite)
웃겨 (causative formal)
웃겨서 (causative informal)
웃기어서 (causative informal)
웃기니 (causative informal polite)
웃기니까 (causative formal polite)
웃기지만 (contrastive formal)
웃기는데 (contrastive informal)
웃기더니 (contrastive informal polite)
웃기고 (conjunctive formal)
웃기면 (conditional formal)
웃겨야 (conditional informal)
웃기어야 (conditional informal)
웃기려고 (formal motive-form)
웃김 (formal noun-from-verb)
웃기기 (informal noun-from-verb)
웃겼음 (formal noun-from-verb past)
웃기었음 (formal noun-from-verb past)
웃겼기 (informal noun-from-verb past)
웃기었기 (informal noun-from-verb past)
웃긴 (determiner formal past)
웃기는 (determiner formal present)
웃길 (determiner formal future)
웃기신다 (formal indicative non-past)
웃기셔 (indicative informal non-past)
웃기세요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃기셔요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃기십니다 (formal indicative non-past polite)
웃기셨다 (formal indicative past)
웃기셨어 (indicative informal past)
웃기셨어요 (indicative informal past polite)
웃기셨습니다 (formal indicative past polite)
웃기시느냐 (formal interrogative non-past)
웃기셔 (informal interrogative non-past)
웃기세요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃기셔요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃기십니까 (formal interrogative non-past polite)
웃기셨느냐 (formal interrogative past)
웃기셨어 (informal interrogative past)
웃기셨어요 (informal interrogative past polite)
웃기셨습니까 (formal interrogative past polite)
웃기시라 (formal imperative)
웃기셔 (imperative informal)
웃기세요 (imperative informal polite)
웃기십시오 (formal imperative polite)
웃기시겠다 (assertive formal)
웃기시겠어 (assertive informal)
웃기시겠어요 (assertive informal polite)
웃기시겠습니다 (assertive formal polite)
웃기셔 (causative formal)
웃기셔서 (causative informal)
웃기시니 (causative informal polite)
웃기시니까 (causative formal polite)
웃기시지만 (contrastive formal)
웃기시는데 (contrastive informal)
웃기시더니 (contrastive informal polite)
웃기시고 (conjunctive formal)
웃기시면 (conditional formal)
웃기셔야 (conditional informal)
웃기시려고 (formal motive-form)
웃기심 (formal noun-from-verb)
웃기시기 (informal noun-from-verb)
웃기셨음 (formal noun-from-verb past)
웃기셨기 (informal noun-from-verb past)
웃기신 (determiner formal past)
웃기시는 (determiner formal present)
웃기실 (determiner formal future)

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 웃이다 (Yale: wusGita).

ko-etym-native

웃기네. 걔가 뭐라고 그딴 식으로 말해?

You must be kidding me. What kind of person does he think he is, to be talking in that kind of way?

Utgine. gyae-ga mwo-rago geuttan sig-euro malhae?


웃다

ko-verb

웃다 • (utda) (infinitive 웃어, sequential 웃으니)

utda (romanization)
웃어 (infinitive)
웃으니 (sequential)
웃는다 (formal indicative non-past)
웃어 (indicative informal non-past)
웃어요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃습니다 (formal indicative non-past polite)
웃었다 (formal indicative past)
웃었어 (indicative informal past)
웃었어요 (indicative informal past polite)
웃었습니다 (formal indicative past polite)
웃느냐 (formal interrogative non-past)
웃어 (informal interrogative non-past)
웃어요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃습니까 (formal interrogative non-past polite)
웃었느냐 (formal interrogative past)
웃었어 (informal interrogative past)
웃었어요 (informal interrogative past polite)
웃었습니까 (formal interrogative past polite)
웃자 (formal hortative)
웃어 (hortative informal)
웃어요 (hortative informal polite)
웃으십시다 (formal hortative polite)
웃어라 (formal imperative)
웃어 (imperative informal)
웃어요 (imperative informal polite)
웃읍시오 (formal imperative polite)
웃겠다 (assertive formal)
웃겠어 (assertive informal)
웃겠어요 (assertive informal polite)
웃겠습니다 (assertive formal polite)
웃어 (causative formal)
웃어서 (causative informal)
웃으니 (causative informal polite)
웃으니까 (causative formal polite)
웃지만 (contrastive formal)
웃는데 (contrastive informal)
웃더니 (contrastive informal polite)
웃고 (conjunctive formal)
웃으면 (conditional formal)
웃어야 (conditional informal)
웃으려고 (formal motive-form)
웃음 (formal noun-from-verb)
웃기 (informal noun-from-verb)
웃었음 (formal noun-from-verb past)
웃었기 (informal noun-from-verb past)
웃은 (determiner formal past)
웃는 (determiner formal present)
웃을 (determiner formal future)
웃으신다 (formal indicative non-past)
웃으셔 (indicative informal non-past)
웃으세요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃으셔요 (indicative informal non-past polite)
웃으십니다 (formal indicative non-past polite)
웃으셨다 (formal indicative past)
웃으셨어 (indicative informal past)
웃으셨어요 (indicative informal past polite)
웃으셨습니다 (formal indicative past polite)
웃으시느냐 (formal interrogative non-past)
웃으셔 (informal interrogative non-past)
웃으세요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃으셔요 (informal interrogative non-past polite)
웃으십니까 (formal interrogative non-past polite)
웃으셨느냐 (formal interrogative past)
웃으셨어 (informal interrogative past)
웃으셨어요 (informal interrogative past polite)
웃으셨습니까 (formal interrogative past polite)
웃으시라 (formal imperative)
웃으셔 (imperative informal)
웃으세요 (imperative informal polite)
웃으십시오 (formal imperative polite)
웃으시겠다 (assertive formal)
웃으시겠어 (assertive informal)
웃으시겠어요 (assertive informal polite)
웃으시겠습니다 (assertive formal polite)
웃으셔 (causative formal)
웃으셔서 (causative informal)
웃으시니 (causative informal polite)
웃으시니까 (causative formal polite)
웃으시지만 (contrastive formal)
웃으시는데 (contrastive informal)
웃으시더니 (contrastive informal polite)
웃으시고 (conjunctive formal)
웃으시면 (conditional formal)
웃으셔야 (conditional informal)
웃으시려고 (formal motive-form)
웃으심 (formal noun-from-verb)
웃으시기 (informal noun-from-verb)
웃으셨음 (formal noun-from-verb past)
웃으셨기 (informal noun-from-verb past)
웃으신 (determiner formal past)
웃으시는 (determiner formal present)
웃으실 (determiner formal future)

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 웃〯다〮 (Yale: wǔs-tá).

ko-etym-native

to laugh off, to deride, to dismiss (often in form "...로 웃어 버리다")


rialla

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *rīsuālia, as a neuter plural derived from Latin rīsus.


rigoler

rigoler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
rigolant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
rigolé (participle past)
rigole (first-person indicative present singular)
rigoles (indicative present second-person singular)
rigole (indicative present singular third-person)
rigolons (first-person indicative plural present)
rigolez (indicative plural present second-person)
rigolent (indicative plural present third-person)
rigolais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rigolais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
rigolait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
rigolions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
rigoliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
rigolaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rigolai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
rigolas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
rigola (historic indicative past singular third-person)
rigolâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
rigolâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
rigolèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
rigolerai (first-person future indicative singular)
rigoleras (future indicative second-person singular)
rigolera (future indicative singular third-person)
rigolerons (first-person future indicative plural)
rigolerez (future indicative plural second-person)
rigoleront (future indicative plural third-person)
rigolerais (conditional first-person singular)
rigolerais (conditional second-person singular)
rigolerait (conditional singular third-person)
rigolerions (conditional first-person plural)
rigoleriez (conditional plural second-person)
rigoleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
rigole (first-person present singular subjunctive)
rigoles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
rigole (present singular subjunctive third-person)
rigolions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
rigoliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
rigolent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
rigolasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
rigolasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
rigolât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
rigolassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rigolassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rigolassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
rigole (imperative second-person singular)
rigolons (first-person imperative plural)
rigolez (imperative plural second-person)

rire (“to laugh”) + Old French galer (“have fun, enjoy oneself, danse”), from Frankish origins.

der

(intransitive, informal) to laugh, especially laugh out loud


大笑

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² siːu̯³³/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² siːu̯³³/

They not only talked but also shouted and laughed.

他們不只談話，還喊叫大笑。

他们不只谈话，还喊叫大笑。

to laugh uproariously; to burst out laughing


大笑

ja-noun

大(たい)笑(しょう) • (taishō) ^(←たいせう (taiseu)?)

大笑 (canonical)
taishō (romanization)
taiseu (romanization)
たいせう (hiragana historical)

May be an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 大笑 (dàxiào). Alternatively, derived by applying the expected on'yomi to the characters used to spell native Japanese-derived term ōwarai. First cited in Japanese with this reading in 1584.

爆笑

explosive laughter, the act of bursting out laughing


大笑

大笑する (canonical)
taishō suru (romanization)
大笑し (stem)
大笑した (past)
大笑し
たいしょうし
taishō shi
大笑する
たいしょうする
taishō suru
大笑すれ
たいしょうすれ
taishō sure
大笑せよ (imperative literary)
大笑しろ (colloquial imperative)
たいしょうせよ (imperative literary)
たいしょうしろ (colloquial imperative)
taishō seyo (imperative literary)
taishō shiro (colloquial imperative)
大笑される (passive)
たいしょうされる (passive)
taishō sareru (passive)
大笑させる (causative)
大笑さす (causative)
たいしょうさせる (causative)
たいしょうさす (causative)
taishō saseru (causative)
taishō sasu (causative)
大笑できる (potential)
たいしょうできる (potential)
taishō dekiru (potential)
大笑しよう (volitional)
たいしょうしよう (volitional)
taishō shiyō (volitional)
大笑しない (negative)
たいしょうしない (negative)
taishō shinai (negative)
大笑せず (continuative negative)
たいしょうせず (continuative negative)
taishō sezu (continuative negative)
大笑します (formal)
たいしょうします (formal)
taishō shimasu (formal)
大笑した (perfective)
たいしょうした (perfective)
taishō shita (perfective)
大笑して (conjunctive)
たいしょうして (conjunctive)
taishō shite (conjunctive)
大笑すれば (conditional hypothetical)
たいしょうすれば (conditional hypothetical)
taishō sureba (conditional hypothetical)

to guffaw, to laugh uproariously, to roar with laughter


大笑

ja-noun

大(おお)笑(わらい) • (ōwarai) ^(←おほわらひ (ofowarafi)?)

大笑 (canonical)
ōwarai (romanization)
ofowarafi (romanization)
おほわらひ (hiragana historical)

[o̞ːβ̞a̠ɾa̠i]

Compound of 大 (ō-, “big”) + 笑 (warai, “laughing, laughter”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 笑(わら)う (warau, “to laugh”).).
First cited in 1563.


大笑

大笑する (canonical)
ōwarai suru (romanization)
ofowarafi (romanization)
大笑し (stem)
大笑した (past)
大笑し
おおわらいし
ōwarai shi
大笑する
おおわらいする
ōwarai suru
大笑すれ
おおわらいすれ
ōwarai sure
大笑せよ (imperative literary)
大笑しろ (colloquial imperative)
おおわらいせよ (imperative literary)
おおわらいしろ (colloquial imperative)
ōwarai seyo (imperative literary)
ōwarai shiro (colloquial imperative)
大笑される (passive)
おおわらいされる (passive)
ōwarai sareru (passive)
大笑させる (causative)
大笑さす (causative)
おおわらいさせる (causative)
おおわらいさす (causative)
ōwarai saseru (causative)
ōwarai sasu (causative)
大笑できる (potential)
おおわらいできる (potential)
ōwarai dekiru (potential)
大笑しよう (volitional)
おおわらいしよう (volitional)
ōwarai shiyō (volitional)
大笑しない (negative)
おおわらいしない (negative)
ōwarai shinai (negative)
大笑せず (continuative negative)
おおわらいせず (continuative negative)
ōwarai sezu (continuative negative)
大笑します (formal)
おおわらいします (formal)
ōwarai shimasu (formal)
大笑した (perfective)
おおわらいした (perfective)
ōwarai shita (perfective)
大笑して (conjunctive)
おおわらいして (conjunctive)
ōwarai shite (conjunctive)
大笑すれば (conditional hypothetical)
おおわらいすれば (conditional hypothetical)
ōwarai sureba (conditional hypothetical)

[o̞ːβ̞a̠ɾa̠i]


brecha

brecha (nominative singular)
brechy (genitive singular)
bresze (dative singular)
brechę (accusative singular)
brechą (instrumental singular)
bresze (locative singular)
brecho (singular vocative)

Possibly from a slang term brechtać się (“to laugh”) or from beka.

(slang) kicks, amusement, fun (state of being amused)