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Definition of Sidesplitting
1. Adjective. Very funny. "Sidesplitting antics"
Definition of Sidesplitting
1. Adjective. (context: of laughter) Intensely uncontrollable and genuine. ¹
2. Adjective. Exceptionally funny; hilarious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sidesplitting
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidesplitting
Literary usage of Sidesplitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"Just the place for it, RULE'S well-known Oyster-shop, where a living presentment
of the sidesplitting and original comedian will " astonish the natives. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"The parson's puns were outrageous, the doctor's yarns of old days sidesplitting;
old Van der Meulen retailed some of the choicest of his varied experiences, ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Comic vaudeville stunts: confessions of two famous Jokers: also, "Rollo and his
father," and other sidesplitting sketches: 11. with CO inimitable humorous ..."
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