The Wonderful World Of Words 2/11/17
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
--Stephen King
DEFINITION:
Noun
To laugh loudly
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
early 19th century
Latin [cachinnat- ‘laughed loudly,’]
PRONUNCIATION:
/ˈkakəˌnāt/
Listen
SYNONYMS:
Guffaw
Cackle
Chortle
ANTONYM:
Cry
Weep
SCRABBLE SCORE:
17!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
"Help me up, Tom, help me up," cried the viscount, feeling an inclination to CACHINNATE also, and suspecting that he might die of apoplexy if he attempted it with his stomach on the ground. "
--The Commissioner: Or, De Lunatico Inquirendo
by George Payne Rainsford James, Hablot Knight Browne, 1843
He looked in at the door and snickered, then in at the window, then peeked down from between the rafters and CACHINNATED till his sides must have ached.
--A Bed of Boughs
by John Burroughs,1910
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