English

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Etymology

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From laugh +‎ -ee.

Noun

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laughee (plural laughees)

  1. One who is laughed at.
    • 1827, Henry Colburn, editor, Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable life:
      Adonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.
    • 1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and Sportsmen:
      Whatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.