What does cry-laugh mean?

cry-laugh

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

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verb

To laugh so much that tears are shed.

Intransitive verb

"And I could only cry-laugh at a scene in which Fake Roth concedes that the author Roth could well have a trademark case against him, if he chose to pursue it."

cry-laughs (present, singular) cry-laughing (participle, present) cry-laughed (participle, past) cry-laughed (past)

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