laugh stock, laughing-stock, laughingstock, laughstock

Have seen all of them in formal writing.

But since "laughstock" is yet to appear in the almighty m-w, it is probably still somewhat on the avant-garde side. "Laugh stock" is certainly safe for now; in time, though, just as "laughing-stock" led us to laughingstock, it is only a matter of time when "laughstock" becomes more widely accepted and gets picked up by mainstream lexicographers.

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• 這就對了。 -吃糖？- ♂ (388 bytes) () 04/06/2010 postreply 09:36:11

• Can you point out one place using "laughstock" as a word on inte -Kaolin007- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/06/2010 postreply 10:36:25