Who’s laughing now?

Well, after all that tension, I thought we could all use some stress relief, eh? Every once in a while, after all, you do have to let it out.

The other day I was reading a blog post that mentioned making someone laugh. “Not just guffawing, but outright laughing,” they clarified (okay, that’s not what they said, but that’s basically the idea). But that note left me scratching my head: isn’t guffawing harder than laughing?

So today I bring you a game! From two thesasauruses (those are dinosaurs that know a lot of words), I gathered all the synonyms for laughter:

amusement
be in stitches
break up
burst
cachinnate
cackle
chortle
chuckle
convulsed
crack up
crow
die laughing
fit
fracture
gesture
giggle
glee
grin
guffaw
heehaw
hilarity
howl
merriment
mirth
peal
rejoicing
roar
roll in the aisles
scream
shout
shriek
snicker
snigger
snort
sound
split one’s sides
titter
wakka wakka wakka
whoop
yuck

In the comments, let’s rank these from the most hilarity/hardest laughter to lightest. (And feel free to leave out ones you don’t know. “Cachinnate”?!) Note that this list includes both nouns and verbs.

Photo by Jackson Carson

3 thoughts on “Who’s laughing now?”

  1. LOL, thanks Andrew.

    Carol—I know—but how many of them could we really “get away with” using?

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