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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

Though kings may tumble, No howitzers can rumble, No sounds but cachinnation Can boom from Darling's Court.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 by Various

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

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

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 sat down with it half an hour, compelled to continuous laughter by its own musical cachinnations.

From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

She was under the influence of one of those extraordinary cachinnations that sometimes convulse our diaphragms, without our being able to tell why, and certainly without our being able to put a stop to them.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

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

Tom at first felt inclined to quarrel with him, but a poke in the ribs from his messmate, and the word “humbug,” made him instead join in Desmond’s cachinnations.

From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale




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