agelast

agelast

(ˈædʒɪˌlæst)
n
formal a person who never laughs
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Ashington Motor Company Ltd sold a 35-yearold Jaguar XK Coupe to a buyer from Cumbria who had seen it advertised as being in fantastic condition, excellent condition and outstanding condition for the agelast October.
Who or what is an agelast? Someone who doesn't smile or laugh.
The agelasts (those who never laugh) often seem keen to use the wonders of social media to howl down anyone who dares to laugh at other cultures.
In this sense, Cohen can be understood as a fighter with the agelasts, i.e., pedantic individuals incapable of laughter, mirthless persons (Rabelais in Bakhtin).
The other six are necessary to establish the continuity of Horatian influence: "Pope and Horace," by Robin Sowerby; "Good humour and the agelasts: Horace, Pope and Gray," by Felicity Rosslyn; "Horace and the nineteenth century," by Norman Vance; "Horace's Kipling," by Stephen Medcalf; "Some aspects of Horace in the twentieth century," by Charles Tomlinson; and "Deniable evidence: translating Horace," by C.