cachinnation
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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2012
A vast deal of cachinnation ensues at his various predicaments in escaping these women, Hell-bent for matrimony.
From Time Magazine Archive
He jumped off the ground half-a-dozen times to thrice his own height, giving a succession of little joyous yelps that resembled a human cachinnation far more than any sounds of canine origin or utterance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
But, if he answered at 83 all, his reply was swallowed up in Dr. Denton's laugh, an insulting cachinnation, to say the least.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
Something approaching a cachinnation of delight closed the professor’s contribution to the pandemonium, and eyewitnesses afterwards declared that for a moment the dignified scientist stood on one foot in the opening movement of a can-can.
From Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
They generate guffaws and giggles and snorts and chortles and cachinnations, whatever they are, and provoke pee-in-the-pants incontinence.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021
It is given to few to see their hopes and aspirations realised so beautifully and quickly; as in a dream he listened to the hideous cachinnations that floated up through the slabs of the trench-board.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
For which good wish I thanked him gratefully; and the Court was again dissolved in senseless cachinnations!
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
Where there was so much merriment there could be but little danger; and, without waiting for the return of the scouts, we rode forwards, directing our course by their continued cachinnations.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
Afterward they enjoyed prolonged spasms of mirth, their cachinnations carrying far out over the flat lands disturbing inoffensive truck gardeners in their sleep.
From The Lookout Man by B. M. Bower
