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/lˈæfɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Laughing adj., n. From Laugh, v. i.

Laughing falcon (Zool.), a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laugh.

Laughing gas (Chem.), nitrous oxide, also called hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It has been much used as an anaesthetic agent, though now its use is primarily in dentistry

Laughing goose (Zool.), the European white-fronted goose.

Laughing gull. (Zool.)

(a)

A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow.

(b)

An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.

Laughing hyena (Zool.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena.

Laughing jackass (Zool.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera.

Laughing owl (Zool.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laughing" Quotes from Famous Books

... I said laughing; and I ran to my room and did what I had never done before—wrote a second poem in the same day. I had to have some outlet for my feelings. I called it "In Summer Days of Long Ago," and I worked Mary Gillespie's roses and Cecil ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... laughing at his own bad Latin, told as much of his story as was needful, striving especially to make clear the importance of his swift return, and his fear that even so it would ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... stool by the fire, near her father-in-law. Her head was dropped, she seemed in a state of abstraction. From time to time she would suddenly recover, and look up at us, laughing and chatting. Then she would forget again. Yet in her hulked black forgetting she ...

— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence

... upon work for her bread and butter. If she gave up work she gave up bread and butter, and that meant starvation. When she was asked why she did not keep at work and learn to do it without getting so tired, that seemed to her absurd, and she would have laughed if laughing had been possible. ...

— The Freedom of Life • Annie Payson Call

... Miriam flung out an intercepting hand. "Oh, papa, you mustn't put in that old flannel house-coat. That's not fit to wear anywhere but at home. And, papa, papa, you just mustn't take along that old black skull-cap; you'll be laughing-stock! Papa, please!" ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

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