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

And the brute broke out into a hoarse laugh, till the rocks echoed his fiendish cachinnation.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

He jumped off the ground half-a-dozen times to thrice his own height, giving a succession of little joyous yelps that resembled a human cachinnation far more than any sounds of canine origin or utterance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

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

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór