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Laughingstock   Listen
noun
Laughingstock  n.  An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. "When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Laughingstock" Quotes from Famous Books



... men, believe it. Better would it be for any one of you to be the stupidest and the ugliest of mortals, to be the most diseased and abject of cripples, the most silly, nervous incapable personage who ever was a laughingstock for the boys upon the streets, if only you lived, according to your powers, the life of the Spirit of God; than to be as perfectly gifted, as exquisitely organised in body and mind as David himself, and not to live the life of the Spirit of God, the ...
— David • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Laughingstock" :   goat, victim, butt



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