dry / empty

make a rattling sound / be parched / cackle

with a rattle / being parched

to laugh / to smile

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to laugh in a demeaning way

(colloquial) current boyfriend

everything