laughing stock

短语

n. 笑柄

发音

AU

词形变化

laughing stocks 复数

别名

laughingstock

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke.

    笑柄

    笑料

    习语

    The split was supposedly triggered by racism — specifically anti-Jewish racism. But on this front, the Independent Group have already become a laughingstock.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

butt goat stooge

上位词 2

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下位词 1

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词源

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

来源：wiktionary