"haw-haw" meaning in English

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        {
          "extra": "a ditch acting as a sunken fence",
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          "ref": "1847, George Payne Rainsford James, A Whim and Its Consequences",
          "text": "One line of steps we traced from the spot to the haw-haw; they were very distinct upon the turf; the heel was toward the haw-haw, the toe toward the spot where the murder was committed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2015, Matthew De Abaitua, If Then",
          "text": "[…] there were three hundred yards or so of meadow ending in a haw-haw, and then a low courtyard wall.",
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        "Alternative form of ha-ha (a ditch acting as a sunken fence)"
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  "word": "haw-haw"
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  "pos": "intj",
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          "extra": "(“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19",
          "text": "\"Bless thy simplicity, Tess,\" said her companions. \"He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!\"",
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  "word": "haw-haw"
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    {
      "form": "haw-hawing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haw-hawed",
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    },
    {
      "form": "haw-hawed",
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      "form": "haw-haws",
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          "ref": "1847, George Payne Rainsford James, A Whim and Its Consequences",
          "text": "One line of steps we traced from the spot to the haw-haw; they were very distinct upon the turf; the heel was toward the haw-haw, the toe toward the spot where the murder was committed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "[…] there were three hundred yards or so of meadow ending in a haw-haw, and then a low courtyard wall.",
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          "text": "\"Bless thy simplicity, Tess,\" said her companions. \"He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!\"",
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        }
      ],
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      "form": "haw-hawed",
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