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guffaw

[guh-faw, guh-] / gʌˈfɔ, gə- /


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The former armed robber John McVicar gigged at the Guffaw Club in Essex; disgraced Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan took a show to the Edinburgh Fringe.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2012

Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.'

From Time Magazine Archive

Guffaw, guf-faw′, v.i. to laugh loudly.—n. a loud laugh.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

"Guffaw" I think is the noise he made.

From Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell




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