laugher

[ laf-er, lah-fer ]

noun

a person who laughs.
Informal. a contest or competition in which one person or team easily overwhelms another; easy victory.

Origin of laugher

A late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at laugh, -er¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

This season, Round 1 of the rivalry quickly became a laugher as the Blue Devils raced out to a 31-8 lead en route to an 87-67 triumph in Krzyzewski’s last game in Chapel Hill.
This Isn’t Classic Duke-North Carolina. It Could Still Be An Instant Classic. | Santul Nerkar (santul.nerkar@abc.com) | March 31, 2022 | FiveThirtyEight
A laugher, a thinker, a cryer—truly the life of every party.
I Didn't Want to Push My Aunt to Get the Vaccine. Now I Live With Regrets | Ross Dellenger | September 12, 2021 | Time
When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.
Why I Laugh | Dalai Lama | October 24, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
There is, then, your discontented cynical laugher, who makes a mask of mirth to conceal the venom of his mind.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II | Various
If a man is not a laugher by nature, he had better let it alone.
The House by the Church-Yard | J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Certainly I am a great laugher, and it is better to laugh too much than too little.
The American | Henry James
(if you will pardon a new word,) but there is some difference between a laugher and a critic.
The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) | John Dryden
A great essayist has defined laughter as a "feeling of superiority in the laugher over the object laughed at."
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him | Paul Leicester Ford

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