cachinnate

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I laugh, I scream, I cachinnate, I roar

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  1. intransitive verb To laugh hard, loudly, or convulsively; guffaw.

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  • I laugh, I scream, I cachinnate, I roar —  Something Else Again
  • But, heigho! some fly or other is the indispensable adjunct of every pot of ointment, and while I was still jumping for joy at having passed the steep barrier of such a Rubicon, there came a letter from Miss JESSIMINA which constrained me to cachinnate upon the wrong side of nose! —  Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it. —  Cheerfulness as a Life Power
  • They reach at once and directly the instinctive sense of the ludicrous, and over them youth and age cachinnate together. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin cachinnāre, cachinnāt-, of imitative origin.

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  1. Latin cachinnare, laugh: see cachinnation.
 

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/ˈkækɪneɪt/
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