Underlaugh

Quick meaning: Underlaugh is a noun meaning A suppressed laugh.

Meaning

A suppressed laugh.

Example Sentences

Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad, half humorous.

“A stretcher case, surely,” he added, and an underlaugh rippled through the ranks and files.

John Joy Tree greeted this with an ugly underlaugh, a barely audible sound which made Casher feel the whole situation was ridiculous.

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.

Word Forms

• underlaughs
• under-laugh

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underlaughter, snigger, snicker, laugh, laugh-in, bellylaugh.

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