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
The old man continued his hoarse cachinnation, ending by wiping his eyes on a washed-out ragged old print cotton handkerchief.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
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
The fact that I was passing him the merry cachinnation peeved him vastly.
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish
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
It is given to few to see their hopes and aspirations realised so beautifully and quickly; as in a dream he listened to the hideous cachinnations that floated up through the slabs of the trench-board.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
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
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
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
