A horse laugh is a loud (and usually obnoxious) laugh which includes the sound caused by a rapid intake of air through the nose while the tongue (somewhat involuntarily) closes off the air passages to the mouth -- similar to a snoring sound -- sometimes called a snorting sound. It sounds like some of the sounds that horses make. Actually it's also somewhat like the grunting of pigs.
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