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laughen
v.
245 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To laugh (in amusement, triumph, derision, etc.); smile; jeer; of the eye(s: show pleasure or amusement; (b)
laughen for scorn (bismare), laughen ascorn
, to laugh in scorn;
laughen faste (loude,
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