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
Unperceived in the general convulsion and cachinnation, Pinchas leaped to his feet, and, seeing scarlet, bounded through the iron door and made for the stage.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
He had actually to lie down on the greensward to enjoy his prolonged cachinnation.
From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed the giant, with a cachinnation that resembled the neighing of a horse.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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
The leaves crackled crisply under his tread, and hungry blackbirds shot out swiftly from the hollies, uttering alarmed cachinnations.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
The butler grinned from ear to ear, and broke into uncontrollable cachinnations in depositing his burden upon the floor.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
I began to laugh, Larry joined me, and then Kra and Gulk joined in our merriment with deep batrachian cachinnations and gruntings.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
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