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horse laugh

horse laugh is the alternative form of horselaugh.

Meaning of horselaugh

Noun

horselaugh (plural horselaughs)

  1. (figuratively) A loud, boisterous laugh.
    • Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly...1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    horselaughter

Forms of horse laugh

pluralhorse laughs

Questions about horse laugh

What is horse laugh the alternative form of?
Horse laugh is the alternative form of horselaugh.

Words near horse laugh in the dictionary

  1. horse hoe
  2. horse hoes
  3. horse iron
  4. horse irons
  5. horse latitudes
  6. horse laugh
  7. horse laughs
  8. horse leech
  9. horse leeches
  10. horse litter
  11. horse litters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse laugh (page history and authors); horselaugh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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