Gaffe vs Guffaw - What's the difference?
gaffe | guffaw |
A boisterous laugh
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To laugh boisterously.
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As nouns the difference between gaffe and guffaw
is that gaffe is a foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public while guffaw is a boisterous laugh.As a verb guffaw is
to laugh boisterously.gaffe
English
Alternative forms
* gaffSynonyms
* blooper, blunder, boo-boo, bozo eruption, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko * See alsoSee also
* malapropism * Freudian slip * Bushism ----guffaw
English
Noun
(en noun)- On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
- He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.
- He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.
Synonyms
* (boisterous laugh) belly laughVerb
(en verb)- He guffawed at his adversaries.
- Peter, on the contrary, threw back his head and guffawed thunderously.