Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coarse, loud, vulgar laughter.
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Examples
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You can hear the carters cracking their whips and crying hoarsely to their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness.
Lay Morals 2005
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In the midst of some most pathetic passage, the parting of Jaffier with his dying friend, for instance, he would suddenly be surprised with a fit of violent horse-laughter.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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A gang of uncouth practical jokers, exploding in horse-laughter, skylarked about, jostling rudely.
The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.
How to Tell a Story 1895
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The diabolical horse-laughter came again, and then the devil who had loosened the tongue of the dying woman in the intoxication of the drug made her reveal the worst secret of her tortured conscience.
The Eternal City Hall Caine 1892
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They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin while receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter.
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882
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They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin whilst receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter.
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1872
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You can hear the carters cracking their whips and crying hoarsely to their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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You can hear the carters cracking their whips and crying hoarsely to their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness.
The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gasping and shriekings and suffocatings.
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