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Meaning of हंसी in English

  • See Jib.
  • See Gibe.
  • To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
  • A deed; an action; a gest.
  • A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
  • Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
  • The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
  • To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
  • To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
  • To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
  • To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
  • To agree; to harmonize.
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

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