yaw-haw

English

Etymology

Imitative

Noun

yaw-haw (plural yaw-haws)

A loud, coarse laugh.
- 1965, George Rawlings Poage, Henry Clay and the Whig Party
  […] it was greeted with "a loud, tremendous yaw haw from all quarters," […]

Verb

yaw-haw (third-person singular simple present yaw-haws, present participle yaw-hawing, simple past and past participle yaw-hawed)

To laugh loudly

Translations

to laugh loudly

Finnish: hahattaa, hohottaa (fi)