laughing stock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke. idiomatic
    — Pray you let us not be laughing-stocks to other men's humours.

词形变化

laughing stocks plural laughingstock alternative laughing-stock alternative

词源

From laughing + stock (“source, supply; butt, target”). Compare also whipping-stock, jesting-stock.
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