Homeric laughter

American  

noun

1. loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.

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Homeric laughter British  

noun

1. loud unrestrained laughter, as that of the gods

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Homeric laughter

The implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek.

From Time Magazine Archive

And with peals of Homeric laughter Ferdinand declared she had found the only inoffensive way of silencing him.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Then he departed, and as he went he broke into deep-throated, Homeric laughter, and I—I understood: he was mocking Death.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 by Various

The major bursts into Homeric laughter, in which Zdena, whose overstrained nerves dispose her for tears as well as laughter, joins.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Ossip Schubin

His proposition was received with a shout of Homeric laughter: and Sylvain Kohn cooingly protested that no man should touch a woman, even with a flower, etc., etc.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan