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How to pronounce laugh in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms express joy, express mirth
Type of express feelings, express emotion
Has types convulse, crack up, giggle, guffaw, howl, laugh loudly, laugh softly, roar, snicker, snigger, titter, cackle, chuckle, cachinnate, chortle, bellylaugh, bray, break up
Derivation laugher, laughable
Type Words
Synonyms laughter
Type of vocalization, utterance
Has types horselaugh, haw-haw, ha-ha, guffaw, snicker, snigger, snort, giggle, titter, belly laugh, chuckle, chortle, cackle, cachinnation, hee-haw
Type Words
Synonyms gag, jape, jest, joke
Type of witticism, humour, wit, humor, wittiness
Has types ethnic joke, funny, funny remark, funny story, visual joke, thigh-slapper, good story, sight gag, sidesplitter, sick joke, shaggy dog story, scream, howler, in-joke, one-liner, belly laugh, blue joke, riot, blue story, wow, dirty joke, dirty story


thanks for the laugh.
he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest.
Type Words
Type of facial gesture, facial expression


his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision.

Examples of laugh

laugh
The three construction workers continued to laugh it off and harass our actress.
From the abcnews.go.com
You loved her because she had a raunchy laugh and didn't take herself seriously.
From the sfgate.com
Low doeses of psilocybin make you smile and laugh with out so much halucinating.
From the latimes.com
I'm not good-looking, the Rogen-Hill-Segel men say, but I can make people laugh.
From the time.com
They laugh harder when I explain that the author of the remark means by inanity.
From the guardian.co.uk
It also tells a brilliant story and is laugh out loud funny in its observations.
From the guardian.co.uk
Are we going to laugh and applaud when he cracks wise on Leno, Conan and Kimmel?
From the dailynews.com
I think they laugh at my pain and drink the book of the animals that they steal.
From the independent.co.uk
I would laugh and explain that all mothers of such small children are exhausted.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • The sound of laughing
  • Produce laughter
  • A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing; "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"
  • Joke: a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
  • Laughing(a): showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children"
  • Laugh is the sixth studio album by Keller Williams, released in 2002.
  • Laughter is an audible expression of happiness, or an inward feeling of joy. It may ensue from jokes, tickling or other stimuli. It is in most cases a very pleasant sensation.
  • (Laughing (character)) E.U. or Emergency Unit (Traditional Chinese) is a TVB modern action series broadcast from February to March 2009.
  • (Laughter (album)) Laughter is an album by Ian Dury & The Blockheads; released in 1980, it was the last studio album Dury made for Stiff Records. It was also the last studio album he made with The Blockheads, until 1998's Mr. Love Pants, though a live album Warts 'n' Audience was produced in 1991.