laughing gas

Origin of laughing gas

First recorded in 1835–45

You give 'em some sort of laughing-gas; but me, I'm of a retiring disposition, and I never could force myself on nobody.

Just Around the Corner |Fannie Hurst
He thought it was laughing-gas, or the reaction of being fried all the morning, holding forth in that Town Hall.

The Daisy Chain |Charlotte Yonge
He was wit-proof and fun-proof; but at a feeble jest would sometimes roar like a lion inflated with laughing-gas.

Hard Cash |Charles Reade
I feel as if I had been living on laughing-gas these last two days.

Sunrise |William Black

In these whimsical phantasmagorias men and women move and speak as at the bidding of destinies drunk with laughing-gas.

Views and Reviews |William Ernest Henley

laughing gas

another name for nitrous oxide

laughing gas

[ lăf′ĭng ]

Nitrous oxide, especially as used as an anesthetic.

laughing gas

[ lăf′ĭng ]

Nitrous oxide used as a mild anesthetic.