haw-haw
interjection
(used to represent the sound of a loud, boisterous laugh.)
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haw-haw
American
[haw-haw]
/ ˈhɔˌhɔ /
interjection
noun
Haw-Haw
1
British
/ ˈhɔːˌhɔː /
noun
haw-haw
2
British
/ ˈhɔːˈhɔː /
interjection
haw-haw
3
British
/ ˈhɔːhɔː /
noun
Etymology
Origin of haw-haw
1825–35; imitative; see ha-ha 1
Example Sentences
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But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out through the haw-haw gate rode he, his troop behind, every man-jack of them looking cowed and crestfallen as himself.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
Then someone broke out into what was evidently a forced laugh, a long-drawn, girding, mirthless haw-haw, the laboured insult of which stung Creed into a certain resentment of demeanour.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
You’ve got blood, and a title, and all that sort of thing; but that isn’t all: you’re a gentleman, without any haw-haw, sit-upon-a-fellow airs.
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
And old Mr. Crow, who was noted for his rudeness, even burst out with a hoarse haw-haw.
From The Tale of Ferdinand Frog by Harry L. Smith
The last person to be convicted under the separate and more serious Treason Act of 1351 was William Joyce, a World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
West’s account of the trial of William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw-Haw, the British fascist and Nazi propagandist who was executed in 1946 for treason, is an odd read.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2017
Game changing news in the Fifa corruption war, as Qatar unveils its Lord Haw-Haw.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2014
Lord Haw-Haw, the mysterious Nazi propagandist with the frozen British accent, has had more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose.
From Time Magazine Archive
P.D.Q., commanding the Haw-Haw Guards, who seems to neglect his missus.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
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