cachinnatory
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cachinnate + -ory.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cachinnatory (comparative more cachinnatory, superlative most cachinnatory)
- Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
- But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.