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
Its extraordinary note, and insane and yet good-humoured prolonged and loud cachinnation is unique, and so is the appearance of the bird.
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard
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
It was not an infectious cachinnation, but still it was a laugh.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
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
Where there was so much merriment there could be but little danger; and, without waiting for the return of the scouts, we rode forwards, directing our course by their continued cachinnations.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
I sat down with it half an hour, compelled to continuous laughter by its own musical cachinnations.
From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White
The leaves crackled crisply under his tread, and hungry blackbirds shot out swiftly from the hollies, uttering alarmed cachinnations.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
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 Munro, Colin
