laughy

From laugh +‎ -y.

laughy (comparative laughier, superlative laughiest)

1. Causing laughter; comical.
   • 1864, Rosa Mulholland, ““Good-night, Shag”” (chapter XXVIII), in Dunmara; republished in Matthew Russell, editor, The Irish Monthly, volume 33, 1905, page 635:

     Oh, he’s the laughy boy, sir, wherever he is, God bless him!

   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert Lowell, “A Sad Young Heart” (chapter XII), in The New Priest in Conception Bay, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1889, page 109:

     “They’d—oose—to be—tar-ri-ble—boy-ish—when—I—know’d—’em.”
     One of the laughy gurgles came after the words, like one that had been separated from its companions.

   • 1973, William Trevor, Elizabeth Alone; republished by Penguin Books Limited, 2015, unnumbered page:

     Now he was all for joining immediately, since neither of them saw any point in the unpleasant school or in the laughy, crinkly-haired headmaster whose only concern appeared to be that cannabis should not be smoked in the lavatories.

   • 2009 August, Jon Dolan, “Wilco, Frankly.”, in Doug Brod, editor, SPIN, volume 25, number 8, page 56:

     Tomorrow, the men of Wilco […] will fly to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, before playing a few dates in Spain and Portugal in support of Wilco (the album), their laughiest disc to date. The album’s cover features a camel standing on a sunny roof next to a table with a cake on it set for six, which could easily be read as symbolic of the sweet life the band is now enjoying after wandering a desert of tough times, or it could be symbolic of absolutely nothing. Either way: laughy.
     Even laughier, the record opens with a winking, clamoring boogie called “Wilco (the song),” in which Tweedy advises, “Tired of being exposed to the cold? / …Put on your headphones before you explode / Wilco will love you, baby.”

   • 2015, Carlton Mellick III, ClownFellas: Tales of the Binzo Family, Random House Publishing Group, unnumbered page:

     Then Buggy found himself doing something he hadn’t done in a long time: He started to laugh. At first, he thought it was the laughy-gas taking effect, but then he realized it was something else. He realized that what he was witnessing was actually pretty funny.