| gen. |
laughingstock; derision; jest; joke; mock; mockery; scoff; sport; laughing-stock; pillory; a figure of fun; an object of derision; fool; jack-a-lent; jack-o'-lent; staring quarter; gazing stock; the scoff of; butt; the butt of the joke (be the butt of sb's jokes: Harron and her co-writer, Guinevere Turner, knew that in order to translate Ellis's stomach-turning prose into something that audiences could watch without being sick into their popcorn, they had to emphasise that American Psycho was a comedy, and that Bateman himself was the butt of the joke vogeler); stale (vicious od); deriding; jape; jesting-stock; laughing stock; mocking stock; pointing stock; song |
