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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

"We will soon learn the author of that unpleasant cachinnation," remarked the priest, quietly.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

A female form moving among the trees told me whence had come that unexpected and ill-timed cachinnation.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

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

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

With these reflections, and an occasional outbreak of reminiscent cachinnations on the part of the junior, the brothers dropt off to sleep, tired with the day's journey and the events of the night.

From Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro

How delicately may he modulate his merriment, and control his cachinnations, establishing a regular gamut, rising from the titter to the guffaw, abating from the irrepressible horse-laugh to the gratified snigger.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

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


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