laugher

A laugher is a person who laughs a lot or laughs in a noticeable way. If someone is a big laugher, they may be the kind of person whose laugh fills the room. Do not confuse laugher with laughter. Laughter is the sound or act of laughing, while a laugher is the person doing it.

Laugher also has an informal meaning in sports and games: an easy, one-sided victory. If one team wins 10-0, someone might call it "a real laugher." In that sense, the game was so uneven that it almost seemed funny.

At its most basic, a laugher is someone who laughs, especially someone who laughs often or in a way that people notice. You might describe a person as a loud laugher if their laugh stands out in a room, or say someone is not much of a laugher if they rarely laugh.

This meaning is clear, but it is not the most common everyday word for this idea. In normal conversation, people often say someone has a great laugh or laughs easily instead of using this noun directly.

In North American sports slang, laugher can also mean a very easy, one-sided win. If the final score is 52-10, someone might say it was a laugher, meaning the game was never close and the result was obvious early on. The idea is that the contest was so uneven that it almost seemed funny.

It is important not to confuse laugher with laughter. Laughter is the act or sound of laughing. A laugher is the person who laughs.

So the word can point either to a person who laughs a lot or to a game that turns into an easy win. The second meaning is more informal and is mainly heard in sports contexts.