laughee

English

Etymology

From laugh +‎ -ee.

Noun

laughee (plural laughees)

1. One who is laughed at.
   • 1827, Henry Colburn, editor, Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable life:

     Adonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.

   • 1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and Sportsmen:

     Whatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.