HEE-HAWING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

hee-hawing

verb

present participle of hee-haw

as in laughing

to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound those hayseeds will hee-haw at even the dumbest jokes

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When some users suggested that the pictures were altered by AI, Decker simply dropped some laughing-crying face emojis.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
Campos bursts out laughing — a regular occurrence — before returning to the story.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of laughing

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On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Donna and Swift were seen hugging and giggling in their suite at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium alongside the singer's A-list pals.

— Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

Definition of giggling

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From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).

— Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026

Definition of screaming

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And The Rest Is Football(Netflix, YouTube) is the latest podcast to make the leap to the small screen, with former England internationals Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and the ever-chuckling Micah Richards serving up a daily helping of World Cup analysis alongside the usual chummy banter.

— Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Baffert watched it all on his laptop from California, chuckling as the board showing the horse’s price flaked out momentarily.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 1 May 2026

Definition of chuckling

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