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
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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
He did not even hear the scornful cachinnation that followed it, for his attention was now entirely occupied with one individual—the youngest of the chiefs—the last in the line—Osceola.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
A shrill, continued cachinnation, which, though human-like, could scarce be ascribed to aught human, save the laughter of a maniac.
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
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
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
For which good wish I thanked him gratefully; and the Court was again dissolved in senseless cachinnations!
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
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
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