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Definition of Guffaw

1. Verb. Laugh boisterously.

Definition of Guffaw

1. n. A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.

Definition of Guffaw

1. Noun. A boisterous laugh ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To laugh boisterously. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guffaw

1. to laugh loudly [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Guffaw

1. A loud burst of laughter, a horse laugh. "A hearty low guffaw." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guffaw

Literary usage of Guffaw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett (1917)
"The guffaw is legal. You may guffaw before Rembrandt (people do! ... For the movement has not only got past the guffaw stage; it has got past the arguing ..."

2. The Lawyer's Alcove: Poems by the Lawyer, for the Lawyer, and about the Lawyer by Ina Russelle Warren (1900)
"When divested of their characters, the witnesses went out, guffaw harangued the jury on the "benefit of doubt"; A verdict of acquittal was directly handed ..."

3. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"Gu fad, lengthily or with length ; whence with the elision of the d by the Lowland Scotch, gu fà, or guffaw. GUILE and BEGUILE. ..."

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