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underlaugh

noun

Etymology

Probably derived from Middle English underlaughen (“to smile; smile with the eyes”), Middle English underlaughteren (“to smirk”), equivalent to under- + laugh.

  1. derived from underlaughteren — “to smirk”
  2. derived from underlaughen — “to smile; smile with the eyes”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underlaugh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA