What does underlaugh mean?
Underlaugh means A suppressed laugh.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A suppressed laugh.
John Joy Tree greeted this with an ugly underlaugh, a barely audible sound which made Casher feel the whole situation was ridiculous.
“A stretcher case, surely,” he added, and an underlaugh rippled through the ranks and files.
So in this specific role, in this specific scene, my fontal rush of propulsive fear, my prickly self-strickenness, and my strangled underlaugh that was (and still is) a result of what Sigmund Freud identified as the “liminal dilemma between the intense desire for supplication and the concurrent need for masochistic provocation” all combined to create an illusion of a brilliant stage presence, bursting with potential and future possibility.
Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad, half humorous.
Use underlaugh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Underlaugh means A suppressed laugh.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
John Joy Tree greeted this with an ugly underlaugh, a barely audible sound which made Casher feel the whole situation was ridiculous.
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