わらう
to laugh, to smile
Bamboo bent double in the wind, which is the shape of the baby in the cot and the shape of you about thirty seconds later. Wah わら, ooh う, and neither of you can stop: わらう.
Covers laughing out loud and just smiling. One verb does both.
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