Definition of laugh

"laugh" in the noun sense

1. laugh, laughter

the sound of laughing

2. laugh

a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing

"his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"

3. joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape

a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

"he told a very funny joke"

"he knows a million gags"

"thanks for the laugh"

"he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"

"even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

"laugh" in the verb sense

1. laugh, express joy, express mirth

produce laughter

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Quotations for laugh

Laugh and be fat. [ Ben Jonson ]

To laugh immoderately. [ French ]

Laugh, if you are wise. [ Mart ]

Let them laugh that win. [ Proverb ]

To laugh in one's sleeve.

It is as much intemperance to [ weep too much as to laugh too much. [Proverb ]

True wit never made us laugh. [ Emerson ]

It would make even a fly laugh. [ Proverb ]

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And born in bed, in bed we die;
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe. [ Isaac De Benserade ]

So I be warm, let the people laugh. [ Proverb ]

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. [ William M. Thackeray ]

She can laugh and cry both in a wind. [ Proverb ]

No man hates him at whom he can laugh. [ Dr. Johnson ]

To laugh is the characteristic of man. [ Rabelais ]

We weep and laugh, as we see others do. [ Roscommon ]

To laugh inwardly, (i.e. in one's sleeve).

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. [ Pope ]

To laugh in one's face, and cut one's throat. [ Proverb ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

Give losers leave to speak, and winners to laugh. [ Proverb ]

Dance, laugh, and be merry; but be also innocent. [ Theodore Barriere ]

Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men frown. [ Fuller ]

Women laugh when they can and weep when they will. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You have found a colt's nest, and laugh at the eggs. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! [ Burns ]

Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. [ French Proverb ]

Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

None laugh better, and oftener, than women with fine teeth.

We laugh but little in our days, but are we less frivolous? [ Beranger ]

She gave a forced laugh (laughed with the end of her teeth). [ French Proverb ]

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh, they make men pine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

His lungs are very sensible, for every thing makes them laugh. [ Proverb ]

We bachelors grin, but you marred men laugh till your hearts ache. [ Proverb ]

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Chamfort makes me laugh and think at the same time; that is true wit. [ Mme. Roland ]

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. [ Goldsmith ]

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

We must laugh before we are happy, lest we should die without having laughed. [ La Bruyere ]

All skulls seem to laugh. Perhaps it is at the epitaph engraved on their tomb. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. [ Anon ]

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest distinction. [ Bovee ]

Nowadays we no longer laugh: we only smile, and our pleasures come very near ennui. [ De Bernis ]

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. [ Addison ]

We bachelors laugh and show our teeth, but you married* men laugh until your heart ache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus ]

When one writes of woman, he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before. [ A. Ricard ]

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]

How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands, if it were not the custom to weep!

When people laugh at their own jokes, their wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. [ Spurgeon ]

Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. [ Rückert ]

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. [ L'Estrange ]

All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh. [ Voltaire ]

Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. [ Theodore Parker ]

Better that people should laugh at one while they instruct, than that they should praise without benefiting. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. [ Tupper ]

If eminent men whose history has been written could return to life, how they would laugh at what has been said of them. [ De Finod ]

Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. [ Homer ]

Blessed be mirthfulness! It is one of the renovators of the world. Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Let us laugh! Our fathers laughed at their miseries, let us laugh at ours too! Why! Lisette is not cruel, nor is my flagon broken! [ Beranger ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky. Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

laugh in Scrabble®

The word laugh is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters laugh:

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laugh in Words With Friends™

The word laugh is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of laugh

2 letter words in laugh (5 words)

3 letter words in laugh (6 words)

4 letter words in laugh (2 words)

5 letter words in laugh (1 word)

laugh + 1 blank (1 word)

laugh + 2 blanks (6 words)

Word Growth involving laugh

Shorter words in laugh

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Longer words containing laugh

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