cachinnation
Americannoun
noun
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raucous laughter
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psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
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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
"We will soon learn the author of that unpleasant cachinnation," remarked the priest, quietly.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed the giant, with a cachinnation that resembled the neighing of a horse.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
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
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