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
Verb
  • Everyone is giggling about his vocabulary, but they’re still charmed.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of giggling
Verb
  • 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
  • In a New York Times interview, producer Tyran Donaldson, who has also worked with SZA, recalled chuckling at listening to the Diamonds work with the instrument.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
Definition of chuckling
Verb
  • Being pelted on the world’s stage with the modern equivalent of rotten tomatoes – memes and scathing online posts – hasn't kept the dancer, born Rachael Gunn, from laughing.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Indeed, at lunch, instead of separating into groups to eat, all 16 participants form one mega table and spend the half-hour joking and laughing together.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 Aug. 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The shocker, of course, is activated via remote control, held by a cackling Knoxville.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
  • Without hesitation, the Thunder players merged, all cackling simultaneously.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Definition of cackling
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“Guffawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guffawing. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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