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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To laugh hard, loudly, or convulsively; guffaw.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To indulge in loud, continued laughter; to laugh immoderately.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way

Etymologies

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

Examples

  • “I think I shall have a mighty awesome night tonight .... and may even tell u all about it tomorrow ... (hmm perhaps not ALL) * cachinnate* relinquished - curiosity”

    phelicity Diary Entry

  • “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

  • “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

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  • ag0991 to laugh loudly and raucously; to guffaw (especially in an exceptionally irritating manner) Dec 2, 2008

‘cachinnate’ has been looked up 1669 times, loved by 8 people, added to 25 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 17.