a joke

a guffaw, wild laughter

guffaw

to hear, to listen / to obey / to ask a question / to smell, sniff

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

(archaic) to be heard / (archaic) to be audible

to fail to hear something; to miss

to fail to hear something; to miss / to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide