laugh

Etymology
From, , from (Anglian) , , (West Saxon) , from , from.

Germanic: (with j-present) 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; (without) Low German, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Indo-European: Russian, , ‘to cluck, cackle’, 🇨🇬,  ‘to cackle, clack’, 🇨🇬 ‘bell’, possibly 🇨🇬 ‘to cluck’.

Noun

 * 1) An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
 * 2) Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
 * 3)  A fun person.
 * 4) * 2010,, March 14, 2010, , the unlikely musical star
 * Outhwaite is a good laugh, yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.
 * 1)  A fun person.
 * 2) * 2010,, March 14, 2010, , the unlikely musical star
 * Outhwaite is a good laugh, yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.
 * 1)  A fun person.
 * 2) * 2010,, March 14, 2010, , the unlikely musical star
 * Outhwaite is a good laugh, yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.

Verb

 * 1)  To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
 * 2)  To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
 * 3)  To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
 * 4)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 5)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.
 * 1)  To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
 * 2)  To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
 * 3)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 4)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.
 * 1)  To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
 * 2)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 3)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.
 * 1)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 2)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.
 * 1)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 2)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.
 * 1)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.

Usage notes
The simple past tense forms laught, laugh'd and low and the past participles laught, laugh'd and laughen also exist, but are obsolete.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:laugh
 * See also Thesaurus:laugh

Translations
''Note: the following were in a translation table for "be or appear gay", which, given the modern meanings, is misleading; the title of this table has now been changed to "be or appear cheerful". The translations therefore need to be checked.''
 * Slovene: (biti)