(v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
(n.) A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
(3) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(4) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
(5) I remember standing by the side of the stage, thinking, "I'm about to follow the Spice Girls" and giggling to myself.
(6) He keeps trying to leave the interview and is giggling as he's pulled back.
(7) "He [Meyer] sat here giggling about his [Mosley's] shaved buttocks," said Davies.
(8) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
(9) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(10) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(11) But then the cost of armed guards to accompany them isn't cheap," Aken'ova sighs, before telling the two giggling women the price for bottles of massage oil.
(12) His lordship is desperate to avoid joining them, but as the weeks pass his occasional giggles at the absurd scale of his task begin to seem faintly hysterical.
(13) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
(14) Their encounter is a graphic and uninhibited coupling, but intimate and communicative, with the odd giggle, and each partner enjoying equal pleasure and control.
(15) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
(16) And with that, they both collapse into giggles, like a couple who already figured that out long ago.
(17) Bouchard, one of the rising stars of women’s tennis, had just won a match on Margaret Court Arena and complied, smiled and giggled – but looked as if she were taking part in someone else’s joke.
(18) It was as much as I could do to stop myself giggling as the bemused caller lost his thread and started fumbling for words.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) They order room service while giggling in their dressing gowns.
Guffaw
Definition:
(n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(2) And you also know that conceding goals is not something that brings you happiness … Unless,” he guffaws, “your masochism is actually a perversion, then that’s different.” It is a punishing, torturous profession.
(3) "For us it is very interesting to find Britain like this," Marcel said, guffawing.
(4) Even before the leader of the Liberal Democrats opened his mouth, his appearance last night was greeted with guffaws and eyeball-rolling from part of a focus group gathered for the Guardian by the qualitative polling firm BritainThinks.
(5) He laughs a lot – a booming, body-shaking guffaw at odds with his delicate features, wary eyes and the tough set to his jaw.
(6) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
(7) I didn't understand much about the mechanics of government then, to say the least, and my response was, "Thank you very much Mr President ..." [she guffawed hilariously at the recollection] " ... but unfortunately I don't have money to go to Japan!"
(8) But on Monday the people of Birmingham laughed off Emerson’s comments, echoing a collective guffaw that erupted on Twitter.
(9) He added, earning guffaws from reporters: “I’m also very much a germaphobe by the way, believe me.” John McCain confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed the documents alleging secret Trump-Moscow ties to Comey.
(10) "Satire" is a fig leaf, permitting the sort of audiences who wouldn't dream of watching, say, The Hangover three whole hours of supposedly highbrow guffawing at gruesome variations on the pump-and-dump theme.
(11) A recent photograph in a Russian news-sheet that emerged this week showed a guffawing Navalny meeting Boris Berezovsky, the self-exiled tycoon who lives in London and serves as the arch-villain in Kremlin propaganda.
(12) There has been a degree of good-natured guffawing around Whitehall at the thought that Welby might be a spook, rather than any discernible nervousness that he is on the verge of being unmasked.
(13) I recently played this bit for my mom and she immediately guffawed, "You weren't five!
(14) At a minimum, they would be greeted with guffaws of incredulous laughter.
(15) Men are often heard guffawing at dinner when asked if they want "leg or breast".
(16) For anyone else, listening to the guffaws at Tory conference feels like being a teenager at some dire event your parents have dragged you to, and having to smile through gritted teeth while screaming silently inside your own head.
(17) And perhaps his swiftest, and only recent, campaign U-turn came when his team unveiled its appointment of Indiana governor Mike Pence as vice-presidential candidate, only to have the internet guffawing at the inadvertently phallic logo .
(18) This immediately provoked widespread guffaws from IT experts, for whom uninterruptible power supplies, back-up centres and “mirror” sites are the bread-and-butter basics of any major IT project.
(19) By contrast, Farage, like Johnson, appears to be genuinely enjoying himself most of the time, like a delighted Aquaphibian guffawing in a bumper car.
(20) When Catherine Ashton started on the daunting task of building the European Union's first diplomatic machine in late 2009, the Labour peer was met by guffaws of derision.