Usually means: Laughing loudly and heartily uncontrollably.
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  1. guffawing: Merriam-Webster
  2. guffawing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. guffawing: Vocabulary.com
  4. guffawing: Wordnik
  5. guffawing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. guffawing: Wiktionary
  7. guffawing: Dictionary.com
  8. guffawing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. guffawing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  boisterous laughter

Similar:
belly laugh, laugh loudly, giggling, gale, yaw-haw, guff, boffola, horselaugh, chortle, hee haw, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, whimpering, sniffling

Adjectives:
loud, much, raucous, uncontrollable, great, rude, senseless

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Similar:
belly laugh, laugh loudly, giggling, gale, yaw-haw, guff, boffola, horselaugh, chortle, hee haw, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, whimpering, sniffling

Adjectives:
loud, much, raucous, uncontrollable, great, rude, senseless



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