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  • verb Present participle of guffaw.

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Examples

  • In fact, if you have company while you are going through this process, I will guarantee that they will soon be "guffawing" loudly and violently.

    Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911

  • So please, be gentle and no 'guffawing' at how silly this question is.

    RubyCorner 2009

  • So please, be gentle and no 'guffawing' at how silly this question is.

    RubyCorner Hivelogic 2009

  • No one was giggling or guffawing as they ate, and the students didn't want to speak to an Associated Press reporter.

    N.J. community grieves after 4 teens killed in crash 2011

  • Dance fans, rejoice: If you were among those guffawing through the implausibilities of "Black Swan," if you have despaired of Hollywood ever losing its adolescent view of dancers, "The Adjustment Bureau" is a film to lift your spirits.

    Dance's starring role in 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011

  • I had expected stares, but I had not expected pointing and guffawing and loud laughing.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • When most kids were guffawing at Saturday Night Live, Harley was hi-jacking the family TV for Doctor Who on public television.

    Harley Jones | Fandomania 2010

  • I had expected stares, but I had not expected pointing and guffawing and loud laughing.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • That's why it was quite troubling to see all the derision, the guffawing, that greeted former House speaker and likely presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's explanation Monday about his affair, while he was married to his second wife, with a woman who became his third wife.

    Rumsfeld and Cheney safeguard America 2011

  • That's why it was quite troubling to see all the derision, the guffawing, that greeted former House speaker and likely presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's explanation Monday about his affair, while he was married to his second wife, with a woman who became his third wife.

    Rumsfeld and Cheney safeguard America 2011

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