laughingstock
Other forms: laughingstocks
If you're a laughingstock, you're the butt of jokes or the subject of mockery. If you always wear shiny purple polka-dotted pants to school, you might be a laughingstock — or you might be a trendsetter.
Someone who's a laughingstock is ridiculed or mocked, often by a group of people rather than just one or two. When you feel like a laughingstock, you're humiliated, taunted or even a victim of practical jokes and pranks. Stock was once commonly used to mean "dull recipient of some action" in now-obsolete words like "whipping-stock," "jesting-stock," and "gaping-stock."
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a victim of ridicule or pranks
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Vocabulary lists containing laughingstock
Elisha, a Holocaust survivor living in Palestine, joins a paramilitary group and is ordered to execute a British officer. As he waits for dawn, when the execution is to take place, he meditates on his life.
After being placed with a foster family, 12-year-old Carley struggles to figure out where she belongs.
A southpaw is a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand. However, being both a southpaw and a girl does not help Janet. In the short story "The Southpaw," Judith Viorst takes the readers through a back and forth conflict that does not end until the ninth inning. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Shakespeare dumbed down, Shakespeare's Life, Reading Shakespeare's Language, The Southpaw, A Book of Nonsense, The Millionaire Miser, Oranges; Jabberwocky; Fireflies, The Taming of the Shrew