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cachinnation

[ka-ki-nay-shuhn] / ˌkæ kɪˈneɪ ʃən /


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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

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

Nor was the comical appearance of Hicks’ dilapidated hat crowning the parson’s otherwise impeccable outfit all that spurred Canyon Pass to such wild cachinnation.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes

The fact that I was passing him the merry cachinnation peeved him vastly.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish

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

And also simultaneous the outbreak of the class into cachinnations of delight, severely repressed by the perplexed but indignant Miss Spence.

From Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

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 Mayne Reid

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

Few are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter from the throat outward, or at best produce some whiffling husky cachinnations as if they were laughing through wool.

From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood




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