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語源

Natural utterance first recorded in 古期英語; compare ha.

発音

間投詞

ha ha

1. Expression of laughter.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 106, verso:

     and cryden out harrow and weilaway
     ha ha the fox and after hym they ran
     and eek with staves many other man

     And cried, "Help! Help and alas!
     Ha, ha! The fox!" and after him they ran,
     And also with staves many another man.

2. A defiant expression used to tease somebody.

同意語

• tee hee
• ho ho

アナグラム

• ah-ha

語源 1

Imitative.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːhɑː/, /hɑːˈhɑː/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/, /ˌhɑˈhɑ/
• 韻: -ɑːhɑː, -ɑː

間投詞

ha-ha

1. An approximation of the sound of laughter.

別の表記

• ha ha
• haha

参考

• hehe
• ho, ho, ho
• tee hee

名詞

ha-ha (plural ha-has)

1. A laugh.
   • 1916 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 141, column 1:

     His ha-ha grated on our ears as he fled down the stairs three steps at a time with us in hot pursuit.

   • 1957, Ernie Kovacs, Zoomar: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 28:

     Ha-has from both sides of the door.

   • 1997, David Gessner, A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 90:

     We had a fine dinner, punctuated with Heidi's loud ha-has and lots of wine.

   • 2012, David Mazzarella, “Benigna’s Story”, in Always Eat the Hard Crust of the Bread: Recollections and Recipes from My Centenarian Mother, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, in association with TPD Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 24:

     Not just giggles or a few ha-has, but the paralyzing kind of laughter, when the eyes tear and the nose runs and one gasps seemingly unto apoplexy.

2. Something funny; a joke.
   • 1983 March, Patricia Sharpe, Helen Thompson, “Around the State: A Selective Statewide Guide to Amusements and Events”, in Texas Monthly, volume 11, number 3, Austin, Tx.: Texas Monthly, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 3:

     Durty Nelly's, […] You'll catch a few ha-has and even a golden memory or two singing along with the house piano player.

   • 1996, Lois A. Chaber, “Sir Charles Grandison and the Human Prospect”, in Albert J. Rivero, editor, New Essays on Samuel Richardson, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 196:

     She is not rewarded until she learns to reduce her expectations, and surprises (the ha-has of this novel) are the educational tool.

   • 2005 December, Sue Grafton, S is for Silence, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, →ISBN:

     If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense.

動詞

ha-ha (third-person singular simple present ha-has or ha-ha's, present participle ha-haing or ha-ha'ing or ha-ha-ing, simple past and past participle ha-haed or ha-ha'd or ha-ha'ed or ha-ha-ed)

1. To laugh.
   • 1863, Hearton Drille [pseudonym; Jeannie H. Grey], Tactics; Or, Cupid in Shoulder-Straps. A West Point Love Story., New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], page 214:

     He was much affected, said it was his lullaby when he was a baby, that she must stop or she would have him boo-hoo-ing right out. But he was ha-ha-ing a few moments after, and begging her “To take him for her lover, and let all those inconstant swains glide, they were not worth one of those invaluable pearls he saw in her eyes, when he met her.”

   • 1893, “Address by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.”, in Annual Graduating Exercises of Peirce School of Business and Shorthand American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pa., Thomas May Peirce, page 131:

     Out with the fashion that will let a man smile, but pronounces him vulgar if he ha-ha’s.

   • 1874, Katy Crane, “A Day at Deacon Potts’s”, in T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, editor, Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine, volume XLII, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. S. Arthur & Son, page 651:

     She ha-ha’d like a boy over the sport.

   • 1915, Richard Sylvester, Me—My Boy—and—the Bass, page 39:

     Though somewhat worn and excited, with several respectable swellings as a reminder of his experience with the new bait the boys had provided, he ha-ha-ed at the practical joke and carried it home with him that evening as the most enjoyable part of the afternoon’s trip.

   • 1932, Catharine Brody, Nobody Starves, page 45:

     Charlie had tipped back his chair, thrown back his head and was ha-haing at some pleasantry uttered by the man with the hay-colored hair.

   • 2012, Sandra Kring, chapter 6, in A Life of Bright Ideas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 60:

     “I’ve missed you, Bunny!” she said. I started laughing and Winnalee looked up and grinned. “What? I did!” She looked at Aunt Verdella, who was ha-ha’ing, and suddenly Winnalee’s eyes narrowed and her lips parted, as though she just realized it wasn’t 1961 anymore, and, in spite of still having the oomph of a shaken can of soda pop, Aunt Verdella had aged to old.

   • 2014, David DeGeorge, Friendship, Whiskey Creek Press, →ISBN:

     Arturo ha-ha’ed though his face showed no upturned mouth.

語源 2

From French haha, supposedly from ha! as an expression of surprise.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːhɑː/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/

名詞

ha-ha (plural ha-has)

1. (architecture) A ditch with one vertical side, acting as a sunken fence, designed to block the entry of animals into lawns and parks without breaking sightlines.

   Synonyms: ha-ha fence, sunk fence

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 197:

     A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down.

   • 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Sayers of the Law”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC, pages 115–116:

     This pathway ran up hill, across another open space covered with white incrustation, and plunged into a canebrake again. Then suddenly it turned parallel with the edge of a steep-walled gap, which came without warning, like the ha-ha of an English park,—turned with an unexpected abruptness. I was still running with all my might, and I never saw this drop until I was flying headlong through the air.

   • 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 175:

     A moody stroll through the oaks and bracken beyond the ha-ha didn't help.

別の表記

• har-har

Further reading

• ha-ha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• ah-ha

別の表記

• ha ha, ha-ha, hah hah

発音

語源 1

From 中期英語 haha, ha ha, from 古期英語 ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.

間投詞

haha

1. An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.

使用する際の注意点

Additional reduplication is often used to express more sincere or expressive laughter (e.g. hahahaha!). In text messaging, a simple haha can be ambiguous as to whether it expresses genuine amusement, so hahaha is commonly used to express sincere amusement.

関連する語

動詞

haha (third-person singular simple present hahas or haha's, present participle hahaing or haha'ing or haha-ing, simple past and past participle hahaed or haha'd or haha'ed or haha-ed)

1. To laugh.
   • 1860, Frederick Gerstaecker, translated by Lascelles Wraxall, Frank Wildman’s Adventures on Land and Water, Boston, Mass.: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, […], page 124:

     First he regarded the strangers, then his own band, and his mouth was expanded to a still wider grin; his eyes opened to their fullest extent, and at last he haha’d as furiously and heartily as the worst of the sailors, which was naturally the signal for an outbreak on the part of the islanders.

   • 1908, Field and Stream, page 832:

     Emett yelled for him, and Jones and Jim “hahaed!”

   • 2014, Rachel Hauck, A March Bride: A Year of Weddings Novella, Zondervan, →ISBN:

     She haha’d like she ate diamonds for breakfast and flossed with spun gold.

   • 2017, Deborah E. Kennedy, Tornado Weather, Flatiron Books, →ISBN, page 17:

     Then she shrugged and haha-ed again and mumbled, “Poor souls,” because she thought she was safe and none of us could comprehend a single word she said.

   • 2021, Ali Stroker, Stacy Davidowitz, The Chance to Fly, Amulet Books, →ISBN:

     NatThrowinAwayMyShot: Haha, what?! GoChloGo: Y r u haha-ing?

語源 2

Borrowed from French haha. The French term attested 1686 in toponyms in New France (present-day Quebec); compare modern Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!. Usual etymology is that an expression of surprise – “ha ha” or “ah! ah!” is exclaimed on encountering such a boundary. In France this is traditionally attributed to the reaction of Louis, Grand Dauphin to encountering such a feature in the gardens of the Château de Meudon. The English term attested 1712, in translation by John James of French La theorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709) by Dezallier d'Argenville:

Grills of iron are very necessary ornaments in the lines of walks, to extend the view, and to show the country to advantage. At present we frequently make thoroughviews, called Ah, Ah, which are openings in the walls, without grills, to the very level of the walks, with a large and deep ditch at the foot of them, lined on both sides to sustain the earth, and prevent the getting over; which surprises the eye upon coming near it, and makes one laugh, Ha! Ha! from where it takes its name. This sort of opening is haha, on some occasions, to be preferred, for that it does not at all interrupt the prospect, as the bars of a grill do.

名詞

haha (plural hahas)

1. A type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.
   • 1785, Horace Walpole, On Modern Gardening:

     The Ha Ha But the capital stroke, the leading step to all that, has followed, was (I believe the first thought was Bridgman's) the destruction of walls for boundaries, and the invention of fosses - an attempt then deemed so astonishing, that the common people called them Ha! Ha's! to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walk. One of the first gardens planted in this simple though still formal style was my father's at Houghton. It was laid out by Mr. Eyre, an imitator of Bridgman. It contains three-and-twenty acres, then reckoned a considerable portion.

   • 1731, Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical, London, page 164:

     Haha! or Fossee, are Terms of the same Signification, tho' the First is a new coin'd Word, they mean a Ditch, or Moat to Enclose a Garden, whether the Ditch has Water in it, or not, but the Haha, by the Custom of five or six Years, intimates a dry Ditch, so regulated by Slopes, and so Deep that it is unpassable. It makes a fine open Fence to a Ground.

   • 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter VIII, in The Small House at Allington:

     And then that pair went off together, fighting their own little battle on that head, as turtle-doves will sometimes do. They went off, and Bernard was left with Bell standing together over the ha-ha fence which divides the garden at the back of the house from the field.

   • 1993, Elizabeth Gundrey, Walter Gundrey, edited by Jacqueline Krendel, Cottages, B and Bs and Country Inns of England and Wales, Fodor’s Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 220:

     The estate was cleverly landscaped to give an almost park-like view from the house: copses were planted to conceal buildings, hahas dug to replace fences or hedges.

語源 3

名詞

haha (uncountable)

1. A large leafy Hawaiian plant, Gunnera petaloidea.

アナグラム

• ah-ha