laughy
/ˈlɑːfi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Oh, he’s the laughy boy, sir, wherever he is, God bless him!"
- "“They’d—oose—to be—tar-ri-ble—boy-ish—when—I—know’d—’em.” One of the laughy gurgles came after the words, like one that had been separated from its companions."
- "Now he was all for joining immediately, since neither of them saw any point in the unpleasant school or in the laughy, crinkly-haired headmaster whose only concern appeared to be that cannabis should not be smoked in the lavatories."
- "Tomorrow, the men of Wilco[…]will fly to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, before playing a few dates in Spain and Portugal in support of Wilco (the album), their laughiest disc to date. The album’s cover features a camel standing on a sunny roof next to a table with a cake on it set for six, which could easily be read as symbolic of the sweet life the band is now enjoying after wandering a desert of tough times, or it could be symbolic of absolutely nothing. Either way: laughy. Even laughier, the record opens with a winking, clamoring boogie called “Wilco (the song),” in which Tweedy advises, “Tired of being exposed to the cold? / …Put on your headphones before you explode / Wilco will love you, baby.”"
- "Then Buggy found himself doing something he hadn’t done in a long time: He started to laugh. At first, he thought it was the laughy-gas taking effect, but then he realized it was something else. He realized that what he was witnessing was actually pretty funny."
Etymology
From laugh + -y.