crying weeping tears | the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds), I hate to hear the crying of a child, she was in tears |
laughing owl laughing jackass Sceloglaux albifacies | almost extinct owl of New Zealand |
kookaburra laughing jackass Dacelo gigas | Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry |
laughing gull blackcap pewit pewit gull Larus ridibundus | small black-headed European gull |
spotted hyena laughing hyena Crocuta crocuta | African hyena noted for its distinctive howl |
laugh track | prerecorded laughter added to the soundtrack of a radio or television show |
nitrous oxide laughing gas | inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery |
crocodile tears | a hypocritical display of sorrow, false or insincere weeping, the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma, politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed |
joke gag laugh jest jape | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter, he told a very funny joke, he knows a million gags, thanks for the laugh, he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest, even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point |
punch line laugh line gag line tag line | the point of a joke or humorous story |
belly laugh sidesplitter howler thigh-slapper scream wow riot | a joke that seems extremely funny |
laugh | a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing, his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision |
laugh laughter | the sound of laughing |
guffaw belly laugh | a burst of deep loud hearty laughter |
last laugh | ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying `he laughs best who laughs last'), we had the last laugh after the votes were counted |
Job's tears | hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass, often used as beads |
baby's tears baby tears Helxine soleirolia Soleirolia soleirolii | prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves |
crow's foot crow's feet laugh line | a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes |
guffaw laugh loudly | laugh boisterously |
chuckle chortle laugh softly | laugh quietly or with restraint |
laugh express joy express mirth | produce laughter |
f make urinate piddle puddle micturate piss pee pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee wee-wee pass water | eliminate urine, Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug |
find oneself find d | accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation, My son went to Berkeley to find himself |
steel oneself against steel onself for brace oneself for prepare for | prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant |
get cracking bestir oneself get going get moving get weaving get started get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |
prove oneself | show one's ability or courage |
laugh off laugh away | deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it, She laughs away all these problems |
ridicule roast guy blackguard laugh at jest at rib make fun poke fun | subject to laughter or ridicule, The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house, The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher, His former students roasted the professor at histh birthday |
propose declare oneself offer pop the question | ask (someone) to marry you, he popped the question on Sunday night, she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months, The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman |
cross oneself | make the sign of the cross, in the Catholic religion |
extend oneself | strain to the utmost |
kill oneself overexert oneself | strain oneself more than is healthy |
take pride pride oneself | feel proud of, She took great pride in her sons |
betake oneself | displace oneself, go from one location to another |
keep to oneself | withhold information, I kept your little secret to myself all these years |
keep to oneself | shun the company of others, The new student keeps to herself |
band oneself league together | attach oneself to a group |
bring oneself | cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative, He could not bring himself to call his parents |
trouble oneself trouble bother inconvenience oneself | take the trouble to do something, concern oneself, He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday, Don't bother, please |
condescend stoop lower oneself c | debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way, I won't stoop to reading other people's mail |
assert oneself | put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner |
remember oneself | recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly, Please remember yourself, Charles! |
lend oneself apply | be applicable to, as to an analysis, This theory lends itself well to our new data |
help oneself help | abstain from doing, always used with a negative, I can't help myself--I have to smoke, She could not help watching the sad spectacle |
laughing(a) riant | showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness, laughing children |