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Etymology
With reference to the "unquenchable laughter" (ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unceasing”) γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”)) of the gods in e.g. Iliad I. 599, Odyssey XX. 346.
Noun
Homeric laughter (uncountable)
- Boisterous laughter, prolonged belly laughing; long or uncontrollable laughing.
1873, Charles Reade, chapter VI, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day , volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, page 193:The words were scarcely out of her mouth, when they were greeted with a roar of Homeric laughter that literally shook the room, and this time not at the expense of the innocent speaker.
1916, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter III, in Malvina of Brittany:But the Professor! He ought to have exploded in a burst of Homeric laughter, or else to have shaken his head at her and warned her where little girls go to who do this sort of thing.
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