guffawed

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• guffawed — guf·faw || gÊŒ fɔː n. loud laugh v. burst into loud laughter …   English contemporary dictionary

• guffaw — [[t]gʌfɔ͟ː[/t]] guffaws, guffawing, guffawed 1) N COUNT A guffaw is a very loud laugh. [mainly WRITTEN] He bursts into a loud guffaw. 2) VERB To guffaw means to laugh loudly. [mainly WRITTEN] As they guffawed loudly, the ticket collector arrived …   English dictionary

• guffaw — UK [ɡəˈfɔː] / US [ɡəˈfɔ] verb [intransitive] Word forms guffaw : present tense I/you/we/they guffaw he/she/it guffaws present participle guffawing past tense guffawed past participle guffawed to laugh very loudly Derived word: guffaw UK / US noun …   English dictionary

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• guffaw — 1. noun /ɡəˈfɔː,ɡəˈfɔ,ɡəˈfoː/ 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… …   Wiktionary

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• guffaw — guf|faw [gəˈfo: US ˈfo:] v [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: From the sound] to laugh loudly ▪ We guffawed at what Graham had written. >guffaw[i] n ▪ The announcement was greeted with loud guffaws …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• guffaw — (n.) 1720, Scottish, probably imitative of the sound of coarse laughter. Cf. gawf (early 16c.) loud, noisy laugh. The verb is from 1721. Related: Guffawed; guffawing …   Etymology dictionary

• doubling of final consonants in inflection — The table below explains the differing practice in English shown by the forms hotter, enrolled, offered, targeted, in which the root word (hot, enrol, offer, target) ends in a single consonant. Practice can also differ with the same word in BrE… …   Modern English usage

• guf|faw — «guh F», noun, verb. –n. a burst of loud, coarse laughter: »Young Buttons burst out into a guffaw (Thackeray). –v.i. to laugh loudly and coarsely: »For his monomaniacal follies, he is everywhere guffawed at (Time). ╂[originally Scottish; probably …   Useful english dictionary