What's the difference between guffaw and laughter?

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.

Laughter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "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.
  • (2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
  • (3) It’s even slower than the public service” (much laughter) “and it’s all stage managed”.
  • (4) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
  • (5) It felt just amazing.” But there was laughter when it was suggested that she might extend that record by a few days with gold in the 5,000m.
  • (6) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
  • (7) Earlier Davies had raised laughter in the Grimond Room in Westminster's Portcullis House when he asked the judge, recently promoted to president of the Queen's Bench Division, whether he had any "regrets" about his report.
  • (8) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
  • (9) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
  • (10) He is part of a travelling circus, certainly, but the laughter stopped a little while ago.
  • (11) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
  • (12) Laughter is a partly involuntary act involving complex pathways in the central nervous system.
  • (13) That is why I am not the leader of the Labour party,” he said, to laughter and a round of applause.
  • (14) One patient had precocious puberty, epileptic laughter, and abnormal behavior; the other had cerebral seizures.
  • (15) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (16) There was laughter, but the room at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles fell silent as it appeared Foster, 50, had a serious point to make.
  • (17) But, she appeared to leave the door open to a possible eventual return, adding to laughter from the crowd that "everyone always says that when they leave these jobs".
  • (18) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
  • (19) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
  • (20) Nanu Nanu LG x August 12, 2014 Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) Rest in Peace+Laughter Robin Williams.