laughingstock

See also: laughing-stock and laughing stock

English

Etymology

laughing +‎ stock.

Noun

laughingstock (plural laughingstocks)

Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
- 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, pages 295–296:
  Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family.

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