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A coarse, vulgar laugh.
“He plays rough pranks … and has a big horse-laugh in him when there is a fop to be roasted.”—Carlyle: Frederick the Great, vol. i. book iv. chap. ii. p. 305.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.