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Horse-laugh

A coarse, vulgar laugh.

“He plays rough pranks ... and has a big horse-laugh in him when there is a top to be roasted.” —Carlyle: Frederick the Great, vol. i. book iv. chap. ii. p. 305.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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