Grinned vs Laughed - What's the difference?
grinned | laughed |
(grin)
A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
* 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, Simon & Schuster, pages 364:
(lb) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 (lb) To express by grinning.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins ," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The pangs of death do make him grin .
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
(laugh)
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
* 1803 , (Oliver Goldsmith), The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of His Life , page 45:
* 1869 , , Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics , page 87:
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
* 1921 , (Ring Lardner), The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 73:
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
(label) A fun person.
* 2010 , (The Times), March 14, 2010, (Tamzin Outhwaite), the unlikely musical star
(label) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
* c. 1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Troilus and Cressida) , act I, scene ii:
* 1899 , (Stephen Crane),
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
* 1693 , (John Dryden), "Of the Pythagorean Philosophy", from the 15th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
* 1734 , (Alexander Pope), (An Essay on Man) , Chapter 3
To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
* 1731-1735 , (Alexander Pope), (Moral Essays)
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Chapter 3
* 1967 , (The Beatles), (Penny Lane)
(label) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
* 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) , act II, scene i:
* 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) , act II, scene ii:
(label) To express by, or utter with, laughter.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Troilus and Cressida) , act I, scene iii:
* 1866 , (Louisa May Alcott), (Behind A Mask)'' or, ''A Woman's Power ; Chapter 8
* 1906 , (Jack London), (Moon-Face)
As verbs the difference between grinned and laughed
is that grinned is (grin) while laughed is (laugh).grinned
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grin
English
Etymology 1
Before 1000 CE - From (etyl) grinnen, from (etyl) grennian; compare to (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- When the ceremony was finished a wide grin''' broke across his face, and it was that '''grin she saw, relieved and happy all at once.
Verb
(intransitive)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
Derived terms
* fish-eating grin * pickin' and grinnin' * shit-eating grinSee also
* grimace * smileEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----laughed
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Verb
(head)Statistics
*laugh
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Alternative forms
* laff (eye dialect) * laughe (archaic) * larf (Cockney eye dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
- That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh .
- “And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh ,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.”
- Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
- Outhwaite is a good laugh , yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.
Synonyms
* (expression of mirth) cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, snicker, snigger, titter, cachinnation * (something that provokes mirth or scorn) joke, laughing stockDerived terms
* barrel of laughs * belly laugh * bundle of laughs * evil laugh * a laugh a minute * for a laugh * have a laugh * have the last laugh * horselaugh * laughathon * laughless * laughlike * laughline * laugh machine * laughsome * laugh track * laughworthy * laughy * liquid laughVerb
(en verb)- But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laugh' d that her eyes ran o'er.
- The roars of laughter which greeted his proclamation were of two qualities; some men laughing' because they knew all about cuckoo-clocks, and other men ' laughing because they had concluded that the eccentric Jake had been victimised by some wise child of civilisation.
- If life seems jolly rotten / There's something you've forgotten / And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
- Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned
- In Folly’s cup ?till laughs the bubble Joy.
- No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valu'd more.
- There was something about him, Harry, that amused me. He was such a monster. You will laugh at me, I know, but I really went in and paid a whole guinea for the stage-box. To the present day I can't make out why I did so; and yet if I hadn't! – my dear Harry, if I hadn't, I would have missed the greatest romance of my life. I see you are laughing. It is horrid of you!"
- On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back
- Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
- I shall laugh myself to death.
- From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.
- Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.
- "You refuse to take me seriously," Lute said, when she had laughed her appreciation. "How can I take that Planchette rigmarole seriously?"