horselaugh

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

“Here is a goodly summons!” said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh.

Castle Dangerous 2008

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

So many of the scholars we'd interviewed had given us the old horselaugh.

Shakespeare 2008

George would have given him the old horselaugh for sure.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

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.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

But Purdy burst into a horselaugh, and held his sides.

Australia Felix 2003

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."

One Market Under God, and Heaven Help Us All 2000