laugher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who laughs, especially one with a characteristic or frequent laugh

   She was an easy laugher whose delight spread through the room.

2. 2
   noun

   informal, chiefly US: a contest or game won by a very large margin

   The final became a laugher after the home team scored six unanswered goals.

3. 3
   noun

   a variety of domestic pigeon bred for a call that resembles laughter

   The laugher produced a rolling coo unlike the calls of the other pigeon breeds.

From Middle English laugher, formed from laugh + the agent suffix -er. The ordinary sense is simply 'one who laughs.' The sports sense treats an easy victory as laughably one-sided, while the pigeon breed was named for its distinctive laughing or chuckling call.

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