guffawing

verb

present participle of guffaw
as in giggling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guffawing
  1. giggling
  2. chuckling
  3. laughing
  4. snickering
  5. chortling
  6. cackling
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  • Less scrolling on the toilet in fear, more giggling with compatriots in joy.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
  • This approach worked for Jean Nelson of Pasadena, California, after her 2-year-old son, Luke, took delight in dragging toilet paper down the hall, giggling as the roll unfurled behind him.
    — Cynthia Hanson, Parents, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of giggling
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  • The Tío Xavier persona that Becerra supporters have trotted out — a kind, chuckling sage — isn’t what California needs right now.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Cubs pitcher David Peterson was coming out of the bullpen to pitch in the eighth inning after the fight took place, and the umpires were chuckling.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of chuckling
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  • During one sequence, Swift sits in her director’s chair with Kelce standing behind her, smiling and laughing with his hands lovingly holding her arms.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Israeli soldiers filmed themselves in high definition laughing, looting homes, destroying entire rows of buildings, humiliating civilians, even killing them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of laughing
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  • There are people who keep snickering through the end, and then there are people who are moved by it and are clearly mad that those people are snickering.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 18 Aug. 2026
  • However, there is no rule prohibiting snickering in private.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Definition of snickering
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  • Regime leaders must be chortling over their surprising and unearned new international legitimacy.
    — Daniel B. Shapiro, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • The nightingale flew around the fox’s head, the two of them chortling in their own indiscernible ways.
    — Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
Definition of chortling
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  • Nury Martinez blithely mispronounced Eunisses Hernandez’s name while cackling about the first-time candidate’s challenge to Cedillo.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • No electricity, no phones, no bright screens flashing information, no cackling TV in the corner of the room.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of cackling
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“Guffawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guffawing. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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