What does horse laugh mean?
Horse laugh means (figurative) A loud, boisterous laugh..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(figurative) A loud, boisterous laugh..
Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
Use horse laugh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Horse laugh means (figurative) A loud, boisterous laugh..
Common synonyms include horselaughter, hee-haw, ha-ha, haw-haw.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
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