laughing hyena
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Again that sound from Devey's corner which Hasluck had described as "a laughing hyena with the toothache"; and again all eyes went to Devey.
From The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)
In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.
From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward
I come in singing, not knowing anything, and Abby calls me a laughing hyena; and I am scarcely in the room before you set me down as a savage!
From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Kavanagh, Julia
They went to the theater, and when Montgomery sprang a joke or Stone did a fall Miss Dunlap showed her appreciation after the fashion of a laughing hyena.
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
The striped or ferocious hyena, called the shard-wolf, and another which the colonists call the bay-wolf, and which I believe to be the one known as the laughing hyena.
From The Mission by Marryat, Frederick
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