Modifies a noun

• dove: Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis Not included in Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands.

• stock: The choice has made England the laughing stock of world football.

• matter: In medical hands, hypnosis was no laughing matter.

• gas: Laughing gas What are you reading at the moment?

• gear: Don't use a knife and fork, just seize in both hands and wrap your laughing gear around a yummy, moreish mouthful!

• eye: You had never seen his eyes any more than his soul; jolly laughing eyes.

Modifying Another Word

• away: Leaving Terrence to contemplate his lucky escape, she ran away laughing.

• back: You can lean back laughing, shooting arrows through these people.

• not: Not laughing would make it Unworthy to be called the Way.

• hysterically: Perhaps he needed to " save face " in front of my now hysterically laughing fiancee.

• all: I had them all laughing when I sang my own rendition of the Gilligan's Island theme, substituting names when appropriate.

Used with adjective complement

• start: All the passengers started laughing ( with him rather than at him ), which gave him a fit of the giggles.

• hear: Key product the heard laughing during an america first.

• die: Macbeth here dies laughing, a blessed release from a godless world, but it is not moving.

• help: You shouldn't really, ay, but you can't help laughing can you?

• do: When they got done laughing, Davy says-- ' It won't hardly do, Charles William.