laughing-stockn.
'la:fiŋ stɔk
中文n. 笑柄
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laughing-stock (n.)also laughingstock; 1510s, formed by analogy with whipping-stock "whipping post," later also "object of frequent whipping" (but that word is not attested in writing in this sense until 1670s). See laughing + stock (n.1). Compare gaping-stock "person or thing regarded as an object of wonder."
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