闹笑话

鬧笑話
nàoxiàohuà

to make a fool of oneself; to make a spectacle of oneself

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Homographs

闹笑话 nàoxiàohua to make a fool of oneself

Entry Composition

=1 闹 nào variant of 闹 nào
=1 闹 nào
  1. noisy
  2. cacophonous
  3. to make noise
  4. to disturb
  5. to vent (feelings)
  6. to fall ill
  7. to have an attack (of sickness)
  8. to go in (for some activity)
  9. to joke
2 笑话 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: 句 m; 個／个 c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at