guffawn.
/ɡəˈfɔː/, U.S. /ɡəˈfɔ/, /ɡəˈfɑ/, Scottish English /ɡəˈfɔ/ Originally Scottish.figurative.18.. D. Jerrold in S. Smiles Self-help (1859) xi. 268 The world will get tired..of this eternal guffaw about all things.
A burst of coarse laughter; a loud or boisterous laugh.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of
gawf?a1513
roar1675
horse-laugh1713
guffaw1720
ha ha1806
haw-haw1838
hee-haw1843
yaw-haw1912
1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 7 Syne circling wheels the flattering Gaffaw, As well they may; he gars their Beards wag a'.
1728 A. Ramsay Caterpillar & Ant in Fables & Tales 28 The airy Ant syne turn'd awa, And left him with a proud gaffa.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 116 That silly fliskmahoy..has..done naething but laugh and greet, the skirl at the tail o' guffá, for twa days successfully.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 619 The fidging Prentices, their elbows claw, And speak their triumph in a loud guffāā.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 572/2 Horse laughter, and loud gaffaws.
1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 25 At the last he burst out into an absolute ‘guffaw’.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxiv. 503 It is no senseless loud guffaw.
1887 R. Browning B. de Mandeville in Parleyings iv. 10 This friend—(Whose groan I hear, with guffaugh at the end Disposing of mock-melancholy).
1891 E. Gosse Gossip in Library xx. 260 There was a general guffaw of laughter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
guffawv.
/ɡəˈfɔː/, U.S. /ɡəˈfɔ/, /ɡəˈfɑ/, Scottish English /ɡəˈfɔ/ Originally Scottish.
a. intransitive. To laugh loudly or boisterously; to laugh coarsely or harshly.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely
kenchc1225
fleer1553
checkle1627
roar1689
guffaw1721
horse-laugh1763
cachinnate1824
snort1825
haw-haw1833
yaw-haw1836
to laugh like a drain1948
1721 A. Ramsay Petit. Whin-bush Club 12 To bend wi' ye and spend wi' ye An evening, and gaffaw.
1821 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) I. 362 I have been dining and gaffaaing with one Nichol, a Mathematical Teacher here.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 19 They Gaffaw and smirkle in their play.
1832–53 Vedder in Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. (Sc. Songs) 83 M'Rory guffaw'd like a laughing ‘hyenar’.
1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. 31 How men grin and guffaw behind her back.
1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 254 ‘It comes of heat and beer!’—hark how he guffaws plain!
b. transitive. To say with a guffaw; to express by means of a guffaw.
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1865 J. Hatton Bitter Sweets viii Mat shrugged his shoulders and guffawed his satisfaction.
1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 130 ‘Reckon he's down on your card a few times more’, he guffaws.
Derivatives
guˈffawing n. and adj.
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1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 500 Glorious guffawing all night, and immeasurable murder all day.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. xi. 216 You guffawing jackanapes.
guˈffawingly adv.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [adverb] > with loud or coarse laughter
guffawingly1822
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 790 Sydney Smith has turned the laugh against the Bishop most triumphantly and guffawingly.
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