Noun

(en noun)

A boisterous laugh

*

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.

* 1906 , , ch. xx,

He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.

* 1936 , , ch. 15,

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.

Noun

(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)

The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .

(label) A reason for merriment.