haw-haw

Noun (1)

ha-ha (plural ha-has)

1. A laugh.
   • His ha-ha grated on our ears as he fled down the stairs three steps at a time with us in hot pursuit.1916 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 141, column 1
2. Something funny; a joke.
   • Durty Nelly's, […] You'll catch a few ha-has and even a golden memory or two singing along with the house piano player.1983 March, Patricia Sharpe, Helen Thompson, “Around the State: A Selective Statewide Guide to Amusements and Events”, in Texas Monthly, volume 11, number 3, Austin, Tx.: Texas Monthly, Inc., →ISSN...

Noun (2)

ha-ha (plural ha-has)

1. A ditch with one vertical side, acting as a sunken fence, designed to block the entry of animals into lawns and parks without breaking sightlines.
   • A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 197

   Synonyms:

   ha-ha fence, sunk fence

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Interjection

1. Expression of laughter.
   • and cryden out harrow and weilaway
     ha ha the fox and after hym they ran
     and eek with staves many other man1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion...
2. A defiant expression used to tease somebody.