laughingstock

3 definitions found

laughingstock - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Laughingstock \Laugh"ing*stock`\, n.
     An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself
           the laughingstock of his hearers.        --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

laughingstock - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  laughingstock
      n 1: a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, goat,
           laughingstock, stooge]

laughingstock - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "laughingstock":
     butt, byword, byword of reproach, derision, dupe, fair game,
     figure of fun, fool, game, gazingstock, goat, jest, jestingstock,
     joke, mockery, monkey, stock, target, toy, victim