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Laughter vs Yuks - What's the difference?

laughter | yuks |

As nouns the difference between laughter and yuks

is that laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound while yuks is or yuks can be laughter, amusement.

laughter

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter , and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.}}
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • * (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
    • The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
  • (label) A reason for merriment.

    • Related terms

    * laugh

    yuks

    English

    (wikipedia yuks)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From plural of onomatopoeic yuk. English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (-)
  • laughter, amusement
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=July 22, author=Lawrence Bommer, title=Sybil’s Playhouse, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=For instance, the five improv artists in Sybil’s Playhouse nearly broke their funny bones trying to dig yuks from the response to “What’s making you blue this summer?”}}
  • * 2010 , Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots
    • HAZEL: Please tell me that mask is removable.
    DOCTOR: Oh! Yes, of course – it’s just for yuks , see!

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