Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sound made in imitation of laughter.
- interjection Used to express amusement or scorn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An imitation of the sound of laughter. See
ha . - noun A fence formed by a foss or ditch, sunk between slopes and not perceived till approached; a sunk fence. Also written aha, haw-haw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
ditch with one vertical side, acting as asunken fence , designed to block the entry ofanimals intolawns andparks without breakingsightlines . - interjection An
approximation of the sound oflaughter . - noun A
laugh . - noun Something
funny ; ajoke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing
- noun a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Office's writers seem to be confusing funny ha-ha with funny-strange — and not for the first time.
Cheers & Jeers: The Office — California, Here He Comes ... 2011
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HANSEN: Well, you can move past disturbing and on to funny stories, funny ha-ha, funny serious.
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And then he laughed, only it wasn't a ha-ha laugh.
Tight End Spot Remains in Flux Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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And yes, we're in smartass, underground, sophomoric, "ha-ha, Mickey Mouse has a penis" territory, but there's a lot more to the story (and the comics themselves) than that.
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Lisa Nobles tangie ayers said: On April 23, 2009 ha-ha lisa …. good job hippy!!! carole roby said: On April 23, 2009
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I usually blog in the comedy section, but what has transpired this week is funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.
James Napoli: I Just Need to Check My Female James Napoli 2011
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To paraphrase Dr. Coop, it was an a-ha and a ha-ha moment, as one by one, the staffers realized that Jackie's relationship with Eddie the pharmacist wasn't just a fling — it was an affair.
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Maybe making him go ouch some, instead of ha-ha, would get me out of here.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
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The ha-ha moment went to the identical Winklevoss twins, as the crew-rowing Adonises decide whether they should mincemeat the Facebook founder for stealing their idea.
'Social Network' twins played by unrelated men. The solution? Use only one face. Monica Hesse 2010
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Last laugh on the corrupt meanies, ha-ha. — former american citizen in Sweden
Franken’s Lead Widens in Senate Recount - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
bilby commented on the word ha-ha
"(Will you console Zara? Perhaps you have, probing her secret wound with your honey wand, your big, spotted groper lying between her weed-clad walls. Did you give her head-of-state ha-ha? ...)"
- Germaine Greer, 'Dear John', circa 1969.
March 28, 2008
olof1935 commented on the word ha-ha
Came across this wonderful expression in a Mary Balogh book. Need to learn how to add a definition as nothing so far comes close to describing what was and continues to be an awesome landscaping effort from as far back as the time of William the Conqueror. Most interesting is, according to Wikipedia, the note that "The Ha-Ha fence was inspired by Orientalism and the Japanese gardening ideas of concealing barriers with nature." Calling such a ditch seems less than.
March 8, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word ha-ha
Hannah: Are you a journalist?
Bernard: (Shocked) No!
Hannah: (Resuming) I've been in the ha-ha. Very squelchy.
Bernard: (Unexpectedly) Ha-hah!
Hannah: What?
Bernard: A theory of mine. Ha-hah, not ha-ha. If you were strolling down the garden and all of a sudden the ground gave way at your feet, you're not going to go 'ha-ha', you're going to jump back and go 'ha-hah', or more probably 'Bloody 'ell' . . . though personally I think old Murray was up the pole on that one - in France, you know, 'ha-ha' is used to denote a strikingly ugly woman, a much more likely bet for something that keeps the cows off the lawn.
(This is not going well for Bernard but he seems blithely unaware.
Hannah stares at him for a moment.)
--From Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
May 8, 2012
Ennui312 commented on the word ha-ha
From Magician's Land: "An amazing number of lost things were recovered: bicycles, pets, keys, odd items of silver, one or two petty criminals, in one case a rogue bassoon which had been stolen and apparently abandoned in a ha-ha when it proved impossible to sell."
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