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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

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

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

The town-major gave vent to a grumbling cachinnation like the rattling of a skeleton in a cupboard, but no smile lit up his sinister countenance.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

Every wild syllable was flung back like a shot from the surrounding hills, till the air seemed full of loons, all mingling their crazy cachinnations with the din of the chief performer.

From Wilderness Ways by Charles Copeland

I should, however, say in justice to our literary men, that they have not altogether succumbed to the demand for cachinnations.

From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

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

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




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