cachinnatory
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.