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
Snarls, and yaps, and yelps, and squawks, and guffaws, and sometimes the cachinnation and crow of cocks, broke upon the clear air.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
Then right under me commenced a vehement rasping and scratching in the floor, accompanied by continuous groans and cachinnation.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Then Jones brought forth a sickly cachinnation which stopped at the first note; for it made the sword to penetrate his skin.
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
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
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
Their united cachinnations rang loudly over the lake—reverberating in repeated peals from the adjacent cliffs.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Directly afterwards a chorus of cachinnations from a couple of laughing-jackasses, gave me notice that the morning would soon commence.
From Adventures in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
