laughing hyena
Britishnoun
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The laughing hyena heard near the folds last night.
From Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
And yet, how weary had he become of describing to his gaping audience, for the three hundred and sixtieth time, the daily habits of the laughing hyena, and the exact manner in which kangaroos jump!
From The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories by Lydia Maria Francis Child
A strong term, but scarcely misapplied to this plucky and hilarious tiger, whom we conclude, from his continual grinning, to have been a near relation of the laughing hyena.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
You can't make a household pet out of a laughing hyena.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
"And for the laughing hyena, too, I guess," parried the fat youth, as the corporal went off into a paroxysm of suddenly checked laughter.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson
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