[Vocabulary] Mrs. Van Hopper gave her fat laugh.

[sitifan]

Mrs. Van Hopper gave her fat laugh. (Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, simplified and abridged by A. S. M. Ronaldson) http://lib.bbu.edu.az/files/book/1039.pdf
I heard Mrs Van Hopper give her fat, complacent laugh. (Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier)
https://books.google.com.tw/books?i...=onepage&q="her fat complacent laugh"&f=false
What does the phrase "fat laugh" mean?

 

[emsr2d2]

Re: a fat laugh

It's not a phrase I'm familiar with but I would take it to mean that she laughed loudly and fully.

 

[Yankee]

Re: a fat laugh

Hearty, boisterous, loud.