laughingstock

See also: laughing-stock and laughing stock

English

Etymology

laughing +‎ stock.

Noun

laughingstock (plural laughingstocks)

1. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
   • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, pages 295–296:

     Nothing had worked the way sheʼd wanted, and now she was the laughingstock of the family.