cachinnatory
English
editEtymology
editFrom cachinnate + -ory.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcachinnatory (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.