Homeric laughterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Homeric laughter (uncountable)

1. 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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• Homeric laugh