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English
Etymology
From Middle English belahhen, beliȝen, from Old English behlehhan, behliehhan (“to deride, exult over”), equivalent to be- + laugh. Cognate with German belachen (“to laugh at”).
Verb
belaugh (third-person singular simple present belaughs, present participle belaughing, simple past and past participle belaughed)
- (transitive) To laugh about; laugh over; laugh at.
2000, Laughing Womyn Ashonosheni, Whispers of Our Knowings:One step out of, one step into, our homes, our hearts, and accepted truth falls before the laughter and questing of positively revolting women belaughing our way through the wilderness of women's wildness, through the curiosity of Sarasvati, into the answers we need, the answers we know, the daughter-right of our births.
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