haha
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.
Inflected forms:
form: ha ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ha-ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hah hah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hahas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haha's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hahaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haha'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haha-ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hahaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hahaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haha'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haha'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haha'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haha'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haha-ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haha-ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ha ha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ha-ha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hah hah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hahas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ha ha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ha-ha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hah hah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.
pos: intj
gloss: To laugh.
pos: verb
examples: First he regarded the strangers, then his own band, and his mouth was expanded to a still wider grin; his eyes opened to their fullest extent, and at last he haha’d as furiously and heartily as the worst of the sailors, which was naturally the signal for an outbreak on the part of the islanders.
Emett yelled for him, and Jones and Jim “hahaed!”
She haha’d like she ate diamonds for breakfast and flossed with spun gold.
Then she shrugged and haha-ed again and mumbled, “Poor souls,” because she thought she was safe and none of us could comprehend a single word she said.
NatThrowinAwayMyShot: Haha, what?! GoChloGo: Y r u haha-ing?
gloss: A type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.
pos: noun
examples: The Ha Ha But the capital stroke, the leading step to all that, has followed, was (I believe the first thought was Bridgman's) the destruction of walls for boundaries, and the invention of fosses - an attempt then deemed so astonishing, that the common people called them Ha! Ha's! to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walk. One of the first gardens planted in this simple though still formal style was my father's at Houghton. It was laid out by Mr. Eyre, an imitator of Bridgman. It contains three-and-twenty acres, then reckoned a considerable portion.
Haha! or Fossee, are Terms of the same Signification, tho' the First is a new coin'd Word, they mean a Ditch, or Moat to Enclose a Garden, whether the Ditch has Water in it, or not, but the Haha, by the Custom of five or six Years, intimates a dry Ditch, so regulated by Slopes, and so Deep that it is unpassable. It makes a fine open Fence to a Ground.
And then that pair went off together, fighting their own little battle on that head, as turtle-doves will sometimes do. They went off, and Bernard was left with Bell standing together over the ha-ha fence which divides the garden at the back of the house from the field.
The estate was cleverly landscaped to give an almost park-like view from the house: copses were planted to conceal buildings, hahas dug to replace fences or hedges.
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