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agelast
[ aj-uh-last ]
noun
Literary.
- 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 51Թ Forms
- ···پ [aj-, uh, -, las, -tik], adjective noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of agelast1
First recorded in 1875–80; from Middle French agelasate, from éٴDz “not laughing,” from a- a- 6( def ) + ó “laughable” (from geláein, gelân “to laugh”)
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