haw-haw

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To laugh heartily.


I sat down in front of the General, and we haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 189.

He burst out a larfin', and staggered over to the sophy, and laid down and haw-hawed like thunder.--Sam Slick, 3d ser. ch. vii.

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