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Roget's Thesaurus

#857. Laughingstock

[Object and cause of ridicule.]

Nouns

laughingstock, jestingstock, gazingstock; butt, game, fair game; April fool etc. (dupe) 547. original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon etc. (jester) 844; pantomimist etc. (actor) 599. schlemiel. jest etc. (wit) 842.

Phrases

dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt [Lat.].


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