Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loud coarse laugh; a guffaw.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loud, coarse, boisterous laugh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A loud, distinct, sound of
laughter by a human.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing
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Examples
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It was hard to suppress a horselaugh at the weekend's news that Ralph Nader and Cornel West are trying to organize a primary challenge against President Obama.
Could Nader Hurt Obama? James Taranto 2011
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“Here is a goodly summons!” said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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So when Synova says "And if you think that the Bush administration has been successful *ever* at putting a story out that they want put out then..." the only rational response is a resounding horselaugh.
"I hope this gets you fired, you're obviously stupid.... There's plenty of proof 9/11 was an inside job. Try reading, if you know how.....lololol." Ann Althouse 2008
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So many of the scholars we'd interviewed had given us the old horselaugh.
Shakespeare 2008
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George would have given him the old horselaugh for sure.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh.
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These are indeed, like arsenic, and other dangerous drugs in physic, to be used with the utmost caution; nor would I advise the introduction of them at all in those works, or by those authors, to which, or to whom, a horselaugh in the reader would be any great prejudice or mortification.
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But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh.
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But Purdy burst into a horselaugh, and held his sides.
Australia Felix 2003
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We are on a universal automated telephone menu, the electronic circle ever returning to the announcement that tells us, "To hear these options again, press star, press pound, press any old goddamn number you want-and you'll still get a recorded horselaugh."
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