to bray

Examples

• All

• "She is now braying in their faces, snorting derisively..."

  Crutch (2004)

• You bray like an ass!

  Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)

• You want me to go around braying at everyone all night, the way you do?

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

• The audience brayed and roared.

  Academic text (1991)

• When he laughed, he brayed like the donkeys they were riding.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The community pulled back and watched as he rolled on the ground like a mad colt; he brayed with laughter and tore the grass with his white teeth.

  Fiction book (1994)

• When she found the joke hilarious, she laughed so hard that she brayed like a donkey.

• The comedian's silly jokes made the entire audience bray with laughter.

• Every time he heard a funny story, he would bray loudly, drawing everyone's attention.

Synonyms

C

to cackle

vsto bray

18 6.0

To make a loud high sound like a hen or laugh in a loud harsh way

is harsher and more like a low animal sound rather than high pitched

R

to roar

vsto bray

17 2.4

To laugh loudly because something is very funny

is harsher and more animal like, not focused on pure enjoyment

H

to howl

vsto bray

• Informal

15 3.4

Laugh loudly and without control

is harsher and resembles an animal call rather than just wild laughter

H

to hoot

vsto bray

11 3.6

To shout loudly to show anger or excitement

is a loud harsh laugh like an animal call rather than a shout

C

to chortle

vsto bray

7 7.7

To laugh quietly with pleasure, often with a small snort

is loud and harsh like an animal sound rather than quiet and gleeful

H

to heehaw

vsto bray

9.3

To laugh loudly in a harsh way like a donkey

is the same loud harsh donkey-like laugh with no clear difference

C

to cachinnate

vsto bray

• Archaic

9.9

To laugh loudly and without control

is similarly loud but focuses on a harsh animal like sound

Antonyms

S

to suppress

88 5.8

To hold back feelings or reactions

How Loud

to roar

17 2.4

to guffaw

4 6.5

to bray

3 8.4

to laugh

∞ 1.0

to chuckle

237 2.0

titter

3 7.2

Surface Forms

Etymology