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Guffaw   /gəfˈɔ/   Listen
Guffaw

noun
1.
A burst of deep loud hearty laughter.  Synonym: belly laugh.
verb
1.
Laugh boisterously.  Synonym: laugh loudly.






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"Guffaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... bothered to secure Cookie, and he knelt among the pots and pans of his open-air kitchen, pouring forth petitions in a steady stream. Blackboard, who seemed a jovial brute, burst into a loud guffaw. ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

... blacksmith, who I aye jealoused was my rival, came up and asked Jess, with a loud guffaw, "Where is the tailor?" When I heard that, I took to my heels till I found myself on the little stool by the fireside with the hamely sound of my mother's wheel bum-bumming in my ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... friends must laugh; (although really, Romans, it is possible to contemplate a sort of sphinx figure, "a human head to a horse's neck," and so on, varied plumes and all, without much chance of a guffaw;) and yonder sickly-looking clerk, perched upon his high stool, penning "stanzas while he should engross," is the lugubrious caricature of Apollo on his Pegassus, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... say to it, John?" enquired the poultryman, with a loud guffaw, "when you send her a new one ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... for granted. Rain, in his opinion, comes from a big tank up above somewhere. Asked as to his belief in the personal "debil-debil," of whom the mainland boys have such dread that few will stir out after dark, he said with a guffaw—"Me nebber bin see one yet. Suppose me see 'em, me run 'em!" George is, therefore, as yet unable to give a description of the fiend; but from hearsay authority declares that it possesses three eyes, two in the ordinary position, and one at the back of the ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield


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