larf
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɑːf/
Verb edit
larf (third-person singular simple present larfs, present participle larfin', simple past and past participle larfed)
- (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [19th century to the present]
- 1901, Miles Franklin, “Mr M‘Swat and I Have a “Bust Up.””, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 269:
- The neighbours described me as "a sorrowful lookin' delicate creetur', that couldn't larf to save her life"—[…]
Noun edit
larf (plural larfs)
- (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [20th century to the present]
References edit
- “larf” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd edition; 1989]
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
larf f (plural larven, diminutive larfje n)
- Alternative form of larve.