1827, Henry Colburn (ed.), Hyde Nugent: a tale of fashionable lifeAdonis always laughed in a peculiar way, most insulting to the person ridiculed, but in this instance the laughees were absent.
1875, David W. Cartwright, Natural History of Western Wild Animals and Guide for Hunters, Trappers, and SportsmenWhatever made fun for one party called the attention of the other, and no sooner would their eyes be off from their own course than they would bump against a rock, and the tables were turned; the laughers became the laughees.
