cachinnate
verb (used without object)
to laugh loudly or excessively.
cachinnatory
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a word derived from
cachinnate.
Example Sentences
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And after she had concluded her cachinnatory outburst, she coolly told me she would rather have 'MICHAEL.'
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
On which timely joke there follow cachinnatory buzzes of approval.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
But this last title was very rarely indulged in, because it once sent his particular crony, a chuckle-headed clerk in the post-office, into a cachinnatory fit which was "rayther in the apoplectic line."
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
