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
The fact that I was passing him the merry cachinnation peeved him vastly.
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.
He had actually to lie down on the greensward to enjoy his prolonged cachinnation.
From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
“Ha, ha, ha!” he continued, in still louder cachinnation.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
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
Their united cachinnations rang loudly over the lake—reverberating in repeated peals from the adjacent cliffs.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Reid, Mayne
Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
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 Mitford, Bertram
Holtspur now recognised the laughing voice to be that of Gregory Garth; though why the ex-footpad was giving utterance to such jovial cachinnations, he could not even conjecture.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
