Giggle vs Guffaw - What's the difference?
giggle | guffaw |
To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
A high-pitched, silly laugh.
(informal) Amusement.
A boisterous laugh
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To laugh boisterously.
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Guffaw is a synonym of giggle.
As verbs the difference between giggle and guffaw
is that giggle is to laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way while guffaw is to laugh boisterously.As nouns the difference between giggle and guffaw
is that giggle is a high-pitched, silly laugh while guffaw is a boisterous laugh.giggle
English
Verb
(giggl)- The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.
Synonyms
* (laugh in a silly way) titter * See alsoDerived terms
* gigglyNoun
(en noun)- We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles .
- The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.
Synonyms
* titter * amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughsguffaw
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.
