LAUGHINGSTOCK
NOUNS, PERSON
1380 — JAPING-STICK a laughingstock; a butt for jokes → obs.
1500 — MOCKERY a person who deserves contempt or ridicule; an object of derision; a laughingstock
1526 — MOCKING-STOCK a butt for merriment; a laughingstock → obs.
1535 — JESTING-STOCK an object of jest or ridicule; a laughingstock → obs.
1562 — GAME an object of ridicule; a laughingstock → obs.
1564 — LAUGHING-GAME a laughingstock → obs.
1592 — MAKE-PLAY a make-sport; one who or something which provides sport for others; hence, a laughingstock
1598 — TABLE-SPORT a butt or laughingstock of the company
1605 — OBJECT formerly sometimes, an object of pity or relief; an afflicted person; a sufferer’ a deformed or diseased person; an imbecile; a miserable creature; a person of a pitiable or ridiculous aspect; a gazing-stock; a laughingstock
1606 — ZANY one who resembles, or acts like a merry-andrew or buffoon; one who plays the fool for the amusement, or so as to be the laughingstock, of others; a ridiculous person → obs.
1611 — MAKE-SPORT one who or something which provides sport for others; hence, a laughingstock → obs.
1625 — LAUGHING-STAKE a laughingstock → obs.
1650 — TOM FOOL a buffoon; also, a butt, a laughingstock
1656 — MAKE-MIRTH a make-sport; one who or something which provides sport for others; hence, a laughingstock → obs.
1762 — MAKE-GAME one who or that which furnishes matter for amusement; hence a laughingstock, butt
1808 — BEHO — BOHO a laughingstock → Sc.
1810 — LAUGHING-POST a laughingstock → obs.
1817 — LAUGH a laughingstock
1840 — GAG a laughingstock → US
1866 — MONIMENT — MONUMENT a ridiculous or objectionable person; a laughingstock, a fool, a rogue → Sc.
1888 — BAITING-STOCK an object to be baited by everybody; a laughingstock → obs. (Bk.)
1914 — BAUCHLE an untidy person; hence, a laughingstock → Sc.
1943 — GAME-STOCK a risible figure; a laughingstock → W. Indies sl.
1980 — MOCK-SPORT an object of derision; a laughingstock → Barbados