cacchination

• Am I to gather from that cacchination that you don't agree with me, Mr Tanner? —  Man and Superman
• They chopped off their heads; then, poising these on the points of spears, tossed them to and fro, all the while shouting in savage glee, laughing with a cacchination that resembled the mirth of a madhouse. —  The Lone Ranche
• Pablo laughed briefly, lightly, mirthlessly, his cacchination carefully designed to convey the impression that he considered the question extremely superfluous. —  The Pride of Palomar
• One by one they rushed from the room, till at length a smothered cacchination from one of the little ones awoke cousin Betty, who exclaimed: —  Lewie Or, The Bended Twig
• -- suddenly from the sward before, from the groups beyond, there floated to the ears of Richard Avenel an indescribable, mingled, ominous sound -- a sound as of a general titter -- a horrid, malignant, but low cacchination. —  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

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