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  • noun Plural form of guffaw.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guffaw.

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Examples

  • The answer drew guffaws from a throng around him on Daytona 500 media day last week.

    Return to form for Earnhardt Jr. could rev NASCAR's fortunes 2010

  • β€œIt's time for his campaign to get out of the gutter,” she continued to guffaws from the press.

    Bowling For The Presidency - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • If someone in the audience has healing powers, would they please see him backstage, he says to great guffaws from the crowd.

    The Dalai Lama's daunting teachings on reality 2007

  • Acting it out in some corny video game that will do little more than elicit guffaws from the media is something else entirely.

    Maybe this isn't the best idea Andrew Beckner 2006

  • Acting it out in some corny video game that will do little more than elicit guffaws from the media is something else entirely.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Andrew Beckner 2006

  • Wang Xiaoming, an English scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, painfully recalls the guffaws that erupted among her foreign-born colleagues as they flipped through a photographic collection of poorly written signs.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Baltic or coming across the Atlantic often lose some of their deck-load -- and when engaged in towing it ashore would be pounced upon by the revenue officers, who would only find, to their own discomfiture, amidst the hearty 'guffaws' of the boatmen, that the latter were merely trying to earn 'salvage' by towing the timber ashore.

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

  • (called "guffaws" when in excess) and then extending to the limbs, causing up and down movement of the half-closed fists and stamping of the feet, and ending in a rolling on the ground and various contortions of the body.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • So my advice on your next trip to the museum is to kick back, have a couple of stiff ones, lock the docent in the broom closet and treat yourself to a few guffaws.

    Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum Joe Queenan 2011

  • On Twitter, the Freudian slip generated guffaws: @shaun_hurst tweeted: There is DEFINITELY a sweepstake going on at the BBC or something'.

    Jeremy Paxman follows Naughtie example with on-air 'cuts' blunder 2011

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