laughing jackass

Questions about laughing jackass

What does laughing jackass mean?

laughing jackass means "Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for laughing jackass?

Close synonyms include kookaburra, Dacelo gigas, laughing owl, Sceloglaux albifacies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laughing jackass a common word?

laughing jackass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.