laughing jackass
noun
Origin of laughing jackass
1First recorded in 1780–90; so called because of its loud braying sound
Words Nearby laughing jackass
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How to use laughing jackass in a sentence
For it is a biped and not a quadruped; not that as a biped "the laughing jackass" is by any means a lusus natur.
If hissing heard anywhere, up starts the laughing jackass and down he comes on the snake, and there's an end of the hissing.
British Dictionary definitions for laughing jackass
laughing jackass
noun
another name for kookaburra (def. 1)
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