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# laughingstock

«laughingstock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whom everyone laughs at, usually in an unkind way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (laughingstocks)

### meaning for a pupil

A laughingstock is a person whom everyone laughs at, usually in an unkind way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingstock/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a child who acts silly becomes the laughingstock of the village

### examples

- Don't be the laughingstock of the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingstock/#x1)
- After the fall, he was the laughingstock of the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingstock/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laughingstock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingstock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.