˜yÐÄvlog

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agelast

[ aj-uh-last ]

noun

Literary.
  1. a person who never laughs; a humorless person (often used attributively):

    His sharpest critical barbs were reserved for the arid abstractions of the agelasts, the humorless and pedantic scholars.

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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²¹²µÂ·±ð·±ô²¹²õ·³ÙŸ±³Š [aj-, uh, -, las, -tik], adjective noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of agelast1

First recorded in 1875–80; from Middle French agelasate, from ²¹²µÃ©±ô²¹²õ³ÙŽÇ²õ “not laughing,” from a- a- 6( def ) + ²µ±ð±ô²¹²õ³Ùó²õ “laughable” (from geláein, gelân “to laugh”)

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