Translation for 'fit of laughter' from English to Dutch

fit of laughter

lachbui {de}

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Het boek van de lach en de vergetelheid [Milan Kundera]lit.F

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fit of rage

woedeaanval {de}

laughter

jolijt {het} {de}

gelach {het}

to roar with laughter

schateren

to double up (with laughter)

dubbel liggen (van het lachen)

to fit

passen

fit

geschikt {adj}

stuip {de}genees.

vlaag {de}

opwelling {de}

bui {de} [gril, luim]

gepast {adj}

passend {adj}

pasvorm {de}

aanval {de}genees.

fit {adj}

epileptic fit

toeval {de} {het}genees.

to fit tightly

spannen [nauw sluiten]

hissy fit [Am.] [coll.]

woede-uitbarsting {de}

• Rosewater kept talking, trying to make the questions harder to answer succinctly but the interview ended after about a minute with Rosewater calling it off in a fit of laughter.
• The "second great world war Parodius" that led the world into a fit of laughter ended more than 50 years ago.
• Mora recently gained notoriety on YouTube after a video of him breaking into a fit of laughter with WFOR co-anchor Shannon Hori when reading a story about injuries suffered during sex that included "fractured penises" went viral and was featured on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".
• There is a legend that Urquhart died in a fit of laughter on receiving news of the Restoration of Charles II.
• Death from laughter is a supposedly extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a fit of laughter.

• She achieved some notoriety for a televised fit of laughter she suffered while presenting a weather forecast on the RTL Morning Program "Punkt 6" and for one of her presentations on the same program which was set to music by Stefan Raab.
• Encountering an unenthusiastic response from the winner, and aided by a joke from the comedian Jimmy Carr which referred to the timing of the prize with the revelations contained in the Fritzl case, the presenter then broke down in a fit of laughter live on air.
• This comic device led to his memorable exchange with visiting American actress Sally Struthers – noting Norman's apparent shaving cuts, she kindly suggested that perhaps Gunston should use an electric razor; the nonplussed Norman replied "Uh, I do", at which point Struthers collapsed in a fit of laughter.