noun
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
“And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.”
Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
A fun person.
a good laugh
2010, The Times, March 14, 2010, Tamzin Outhwaite, 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
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
There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
But there was ſuch laughing, Queen Hecuba laught that her eyes ran ore.
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
The green ſtem grows in ſtature and in ſize, / But only feeds with hope the farmer's eyes; / Then laughs the childiſh year with flow'rets crowned, / And laviſhly prefumes the fields around, / But no ſubſtantial nouriſhment receives, / Infirm the ſtalks, unſolid are the leaves.
In Folly’s Cup ſtill laughs the Bubble, Joy; [...]
To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
No Wit to flatter, left of all his ſtore! / No Fool to laugh at, which he valued more. / There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, / And fame, this lord of uſeleſs, thouſands ends.
To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Will you laugh me aſleepe, for I am very heauy.
To express by, or utter with, laughter.
From his deepe cheſt laughes out a lowd applauſe, [...]
Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.