10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CACHINNATION»
Discover the use of
cachinnation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cachinnation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Laughter: Notes on a Passion
... letting ourselves be overcome with laughter, we cannot stop or suppress it. For
when we laugh until we split [nous rions à tout rompre ], carried away by
cachinnation [amportés du Cachin ], it is not in our power to close our mouth or ...
2
The Varieties of Aesthetic Experience in American Modernist ...
Play the present, its hoo-hoo-hoo, Its shoo-shoo-shoo, its ric-a-nic, Its envious
cachinnation. If they throw stones upon the roof While you practice arpeggios, It is
because they carry down the stairs A body in rags. Be seated at the piano.
3
There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray cachinnation: (KAK-i-NAY-shin)
loud or hysterical laughter, or an outburst of immoderate laughter. When you're “
rolling in the aisles” or laughing so hard you get tears in your eyes, you're in the ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
4
What Fool Would Challenge Shakespeare?
Cachinnation. Previous to dousing the light we lay abed Entwined in each others'
arms. “With winter coming It's hard to read by this bedside lamp,” she said, “The
bulb's too dim,” while I to sleep succumbing. But then it tickled my brain, the ...
5
An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language in which ...
310 CACHINNATION. HIPPOPOTAMUS. BEHEMOTH. of a Steam-engine is
expressed, is scarcely more definite. A Steam-engine of an EIGHT-HORSE-
POWER, is supposed to be capable of doing the work of eight ordinary horses.
Wooden ...
David BOOTH (Author of the Analytical Dictionary.), 1835
It is beyond comparison the most valuable right that he can boast of. It is,
moreover, peculiar to himself. No animal but be (for we do not admit our friend,
the hysena, to be an exception,) can achieve a cachinnation. None but himself
can be his ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1831
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An analytical dictionary of the English language, in which ...
310 CACHINNATION. HIPPOPOTAMUS. BEHEMOTH. of a Steam-engine is
expressed, is scarcely more definite. A Steam-engine of an Eight-horse-power, is
supposed to be capable of doing the work of eight ordinary horses. Wooden
frames ...
8
Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess
“Poet, be seated at the piano. / Play the present, its hoo-hoohoo, / Its shoo-shoo-
shoo, its ric-a-rac, Its envious cachinnation.” For Mark Halliday (Stevens and the
Impersonal [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991]), “the 'cachinnation'
...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2007
9
Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns
(315) "Cachinnation" suggests so much: a woman who laughs violently (it could
be mistaken for crying), a word one needs the dictionary for, a scene riddled with
nonrecognition. Ike neither gets his son nor keeps his wife; neither event later ...
Philip M. Weinstein, 1992
10
Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language
Play the present, its hoo-hoo-hoo, Its shoo-shoo-shoo, its ric-a-nic, Its envious
cachinnation. These sounds, however, have a significant history of their own. In
Peter Brazeau's collection of interviews with people who knew Stevens, Judge ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CACHINNATION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cachinnation is used in the context of the following news items.
Is this the future of sport in NZ?
There is a dramatic upswing in the use of the word ''cachinnation''. No-one is quite sure what it means but its use is followed by loud and ... «Otago Daily Times, Jun 15»
Problematics: How to spoil a good proverb
(ii) The person releasing the terminal cachinnation achieves the most audible cachinnation. (iii) Let inspection precede your escalation. (iv) It is ... «The Indian Express, May 15»
What Kind of President Would Donald Trump Make?
Most people have had the somewhat disturbing experience of cachinnation; to laugh loudly, to laugh inordinately, and to laugh inappropriately ... «The Cheat Sheet, Mar 15»
Bringing HP Lovecraft to the big screen
The nauseous fishy odour seems to have mounted suddenly, the shrill whippoorwills have burst into a kind of pandaemoniac cachinnation ... «Den Of Geek, Oct 14»
A point of view: That joke isn't funny any more
This is the miserably contrived cachinnation that nowadays follows us wherever we go, and we could be forgiven for taking it at once ... «BBC News, Aug 14»
The great Indian laughter show
Their weapon of mass cachinnation is their play, Let's Laugh Again. “We are doing this play after a long time. Normally we do a run up to the ... «Livemint, May 14»
Rosamund Urwin: Good and bad news about teenage sex
The play provoked cachinnation; the fees the theatre charged me, irritation. On top of a booking fee (£1 a pop) was a transaction fee (£1.60). «Evening Standard, Feb 14»
The politics of job cuts at BAE Systems
Now the said honourable member, Pete Wishart, is a former rock star and thus more accustomed to adulation than cachinnation. So just what ... «BBC News, Nov 13»
Smile! A History of Emoticons
(Now almost extinct, "cachinnation" means "loud or immoderate laughter.") It looked like a line with the ends turned up and, he wrote, ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 13»
Supercut: Three minutes of Jeff Garlin from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm …
... featuring Will Ferrell, and it amounted to nearly three minutes of belly-shaking cachinnation. You gotta check it out below. Totally infectious. «Death and Taxes, Jun 13»
