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ha ha, int. and n.1|hɑː ˈhɑː|
Also 7–9 hah-hah.
[A natural utterance occurring in most languages; cf. Gr. {aaspergrave} ἅ, ἇ ἇ, L. hā hā, OF. haha, aha, etc.]
A. int. The ordinary representation of laughter.
c1000ælfric Gram. xlviii. (Z.) 279 Ha ha and he he ᵹetacniað hlehter on leden and on englisc. c1386Chaucer Prioress' Prol. 5 (Harl. MS.) Haha telaws be war for such a iape. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. lxviii, Ha, ha! quod he, love doth you so prycke. 1821Byron Def. Transf. ii. iii, Caes. (aside and laughing). Ha! ha! here's equity! 1822Shelley tr. Goethe's Faust ii. 31 Ha, ha! your worship thinks you have to deal With men. 18..W. Jones Song ‘The Monks of Old’ i, For they laugh'd ha! ha! and they quaff'd ha! ha! And lived on the daintiest cheer.
b. ha ha ha! and further repetitions express continued laughter.
[c1150Reginald Libellus de Vita Godrici (Surtees) 262 Cum stridore cachinnans, ait, Hach, Hach, hach.] 1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 608 Ha ha he, M. Sander hath a pleasaunt witte. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 36 Ha, ha, ha. So: you'r paid. 1691Ray Creation 11, Those accounts..are so excessively absurd and ridiculous, that they need no other confutation than ha, ha, he. 1698Vanbrugh æsop ii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 373/2 Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Did ever man behold the like? ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! 1775Sheridan Duenna i. v, Ha! ha! ha! I'll be very particular. 1873S. T. Smith My Uncle's Will 29 By Jove! Ha! ha! ha!—upon my life—ha! ha! ha! ha! Flor. What is he laughing at?
B. n. A loud or open laugh.
1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) III. 196 Titters from ladies, and ha, ha, ha's from gentlemen. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. v. (1871) 113 Commented on with loud hahas and deep grumblings. 1862Athenæum 30 Aug. 280 The hah-hahs and guffaws with which certain laughing frogs and jocular toads celebrate their nuptial rites.
Hence ha ha |hɑːˈhɑː|, v., to utter ha ha in laughter; to laugh aloud.
1606Sir G. Goosecappe iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 43, I wood have put the third hah to it..and hah, hah, haht him out of the presence yfaith. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLVI. 456 The hyæna hah! hah's! at the pleasant prospect. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. vii, All Regensburg was loud, wailing or haha-ing according to humour. |