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 town-major gave vent to a grumbling cachinnation like the rattling of a skeleton in a cupboard, but no smile lit up his sinister countenance.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

The major looked at him, and gave way to a sepulchral cachinnation.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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 Caine, Hall, Sir