laugh
see also FUNNY, HAPPY
- to make sounds which show that you are happy or think sth is funny: laugh (at sb/sth); noun: laugh
Tell me that joke again - it always makes me laugh. ◎ You'll laugh at this story. ◎ She gave a loud laugh. 'That's so funny,' she said.
- the sound of people laughing: laughter (noun U)
I could hear laughter coming from the next classroom.
- when we write down the sound that people make when they laugh, we write ha! ha!
- to laugh openly and noisily: laugh out loud
This book will make you laugh out loud.
- to suddenly start laughing loudly: burst* out laughing
When she understood the joke she suddenly burst out laughing.
- to laugh very long and loudly: have a good laugh, roar with laughter, laugh your head off
We had a really good laugh about my mistake. ◎ Everyone roared with laughter when I fell off my bicycle. ◎ I laughed my head off when I heard what he'd done.
- to manage not to smile, even when you think sth is very funny: keep* a straight face
When I saw what she was wearing I couldn't keep a straight face.
※ different ways of laughing
- to laugh in a childish way: giggle; noun: giggle; if you cannot stop giggling, you get*/have (a fit of) the giggles
Stop giggling! You're not a child any more! ◎ She opened her mouth to speak, and then burst into giggles. ◎ I got the giggles when I saw him and had to leave the room.
- to laugh quietly, often when you remember sth: chuckle; noun: chuckle
Why were you chuckling to yourself just now?
- to laugh quietly or in secret, in an annoying way: titter, snigger (AmE snicker)
The girls sat at the back of the classroom tittering. ◎ The children sniggered when their teacher arrived wearing one blue sock and one red one.
- to laugh with a very high, long sound: squeal with laughter; noun: squeal of laughter
The behaviour of the monkeys made the children squeal with laughter.
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- when a lot of people laugh loudly together, we hear peals of laughter
I could hear peals of laughter coming from the next room.
- when a lot of people laugh quietly at sth, we hear a ripple of laughter
There was a ripple of laughter in the audience.
- if you are laughing so much that you cannot stop, you are doubled up, in stitches
Dan told us some really funny stories last night - we were doubled up. ◎ The sketch had me in stitches.
- if you laugh so much that you cry, you can say that the tears roll down your cheeks
We laughed until the tears rolled down our cheeks.
- to touch sb lightly with your fingers to make them laugh: tickle sb; noun: tickle
Please! Don't tickle me!
- if sb laughs very easily when you tickle them, they are ticklish
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