Types of laughter in English

You can use "grin" to say someone is grinning broadly, or "smirk" for a smirk.

"Laugh out loud" means to laugh loudly or boisterously. The internet slang term "lol" is an abbreviation of this phrase, or "lots of laugh".

"Giggle" means to giggle or chuckle: The little kids giggled at the back of the class.

"Grin" means to grin broadly: They all grinned when they knew they'd won the competition (They all grinned broadly when they knew they had won the competition).

Chortle means to laugh heartily: She chortled at the good news (She laughed heartily when she heard the good news).

Chuckle means to chuckle or to laugh to himself: He chuckled as he read his child's letter (He chuckled as he read his child's letter).

A smirk is called a "smirk": The man smirked at his opponent's failure.

Smiling mockingly, or sneering, is what the British call a "snigger." Americans call it a "snicker": They sniggered at her clothes (They chuckled at the clothes she was wearing).

"Burst into laughter" or "burst out laughing" both mean to burst into laughter or to laugh out loud: We burst into laughter when our boss showed up in two different socks (We burst into laughter when our boss showed up wearing two different socks).

"Crack up" also means to burst out laughing. Making someone laugh like that is "crack someone up": The teacher's jokes cracked the students up (The teacher's jokes made the students burst out laughing).

To make someone laugh their guts out is to "have someone in stitches": Her stories at the dinner table had us in stitches (Her stories at the dinner table made us laugh our guts out).

The Vietnamese proverb says, "A smile is worth ten doses of medicine," and the English proverb has a similar saying: Laughter is the best medicine.

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