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
Clive laughed till he sank down; and Bob, flinging himself upon the ground in a perfect paroxysm, rolled over and over, and kicked, and yelled, and fairly howled in one prolonged and uproarious cachinnation.
From Among the Brigands by James De Mille
Despite the gloomy thoughts passing within, her manner and the odd menace compelled Gallagher to break into laughter—though his laugh was far short of the hearty cachinnation she had been accustomed to hear from him.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
The smile broadens to a grin, the grin becomes a cachinnation, then, as he hugs the fun, the cachinnation deepens to a roar of laughter, and the thing is complete.
From Faces and Places by Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy
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
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
The politician responded to Toby's extravagantly friendly laughter with some mechanical cachinnations which, like an obliging salesman, he turned on and off with no effort.
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington
Again he gave way, unchecked, to his exultant laugh, till the room rang with his fierce cachinnations.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
Men of letters and of politics, breathing hard, thrust their heads forward, while their decorations swing like cow-bells, and grinning from ear to ear show their watery lips and toothless jaws with grotesque animal cachinnations.
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall
