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Definition: Guffaw |
GuffawNoun1. A burst of deep loud hearty laughter. Verb1. Laugh boisterously. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "guffaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: GuffawSynonyms: belly laugh (n), laugh loudly (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Giggle, titter, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation; Kentish fire; tiger. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Goofy; guffaw; daffy; dippy; fool; foolish; idiotic; inane; irrational; nonsensical; jokey; joshing; kooky; laughable; loony; ludicrous; nutty; senseless; silly; stupid; tomfool; wacky;; absurd; batty; boffo; comic; comical; facetious; farcical; foolheade. | | Cackle; chortle; chuckle; guffaw; hee-haw; snicker; snigger; tehee; titter; twitter; absurd; asinine; brainless; cockamamie; crazy; crazy; daffy; daft; dingy; dippy; doltish; dotty; fantastic; fatuous; feebleminded; half-baked; half-witted; harebrained; i. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Dedalus uttered a guffaw of coarse scorn |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Guffaw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Guffaw" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
guffaw | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "guffaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gajasje (exhaustion, extreme fatigue, horselaugh, Yock), ia plas të qeshurit, e qeshur me potere. (various references) | |
Arabic | قهقهة (hee haw, horselaugh, roar), قهقه (giggle, hee haw, roar, scream, snigger, squawk). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кикотя се (burble, cachinnate, cackle, giggle, snicker, sniggle, tehee), кикот (giggle, snicker). (various references) | |
Czech | ryèný smích, rozchechtat se (burst out laughing), rozřehtat se, chechtot, řehtat se (laugh), řehot (laugh). (various references) | |
Farsi | قاه قاه خندیدن , قاه قاه . (various references) | |
Finnish | röhönauru (horse-laugh), hohotus (horse-laugh), hohottaa (roar with laughter). (various references) | |
French | gros éclat de rire, rire bruyamment, rire aux éclats, pouffer de rire, esclaffer. (various references) | |
German | schallendes gelächter (a broad laughter), Gelächter (hilarity, joke, laughter, merriment). (various references) | |
Greek | καγχάζω (chuckle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לצחוק צחוק רם, תרועת צחוק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | röhögés (heehaw, horse laugh, snicker, whinnying), hahotázás (rollicking laughter, screams of laughter). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tertawa terbahak bahak (chortle). (various references) | |
Italian | risata fragorosa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | けり殺す (being disheartened, belch, burp, but, eructation, however, losing weight, to kick to death). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | 'ら'ら . (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo ard-gharaghtee, ard-gharaghtee (loud laughter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffawgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gargalhar (cachinnate, heehaw, laugh), gargalhada grosseira, rir ruidosamente, dizer (account, blurt, converse, inform, recital, recite, report, say, speak, state, tell, to tell, utter). (various references) | |
Romanian | vorbi râzând cu hohote, râs zgomotos, râde cu hohote (roar, shriek with laughter), mihoti, hohoti (roar), hohot (peal, scream). (various references) | |
Russian | грубый хохот (horse-laugh), грубо хохотать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vriskati (scream, shriek), vriskanje (screaming, shrieking). (various references) | |
Spanish | risotada (cackle, hoot, horselaugh, laugh), reírse a carcajadas (howl, laugh, roar with laughter, shout with laughter, shriek with laughter), dicho sin razón, decir sin razón, carcajadas (peals of laughter, screams, shrieks of laughter). (various references) | |
Swedish | gapskratta (cachinnate, heehaw, roar with laughter), gapskratt (heehaw, horse laugh, loud laughter, roar of laughter). (various references) | |
Thai | การหัวเราะลั่น (roar), การหัวเราะ"ังลั่น, หัวเราะลั่น (roar). (various references) | |
Turkish | gürültülü kahkaha (belly lough, hee haw, roaring, shout of laughter), kahkahayı basmak (break forth, burst into laughter, go off, scream with laughter), kahkaha (cackle, Haw-haw, heehaw, laugh, laughter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | реготня (horselaugh), грубо реготати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng cười hô hố (horse-laugh), tiếng cười ha hả. (various references) | |
Welsh | crechwen (laugh loud, loud laughter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "guffaw": guffawed, guffawing, guffaws. (additional references) | |
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"Guffaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gaffan, gaffaw, goffaw, gufa, gufaw, gufe, guffah, guffawi, gufflw, Luffa, Tuffah, Zuffa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-g-u-w" | |
-2 letters: gaff, guff, waff. | |
-3 letters: aff, fag, fug, wag. | |
-4 letters: ag, aw, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-g-u-w" | |
+1 letter: guffaws. | |
+2 letters: guffawed. | |
+3 letters: guffawing. | |
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