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chuckle

[ chuhk-uhl ]

verb (used without object)

, chuck·led, chuck·ling.
  1. to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction:

    They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.

  2. to laugh to oneself:

    to chuckle while reading.

  3. Obsolete. to cluck, as a fowl.


noun

  1. a soft laugh, usually of satisfaction.
  2. Obsolete. the cluck of a hen.

chuckle

/ ˈtʃʌkəl /

verb

  1. to laugh softly or to oneself
  2. (of animals, esp hens) to make a clucking sound


noun

  1. a partly suppressed laugh

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Derived Forms

  • ˈchucklingly, adverb
  • ˈchuckler, noun

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Other Words From

  • chuckler noun
  • chuckling·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chuckle1

First recorded in 1590–1600; chuck 3 + -le

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chuckle1

C16: probably from chuck ³

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Synonym Study

See laugh.

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Example Sentences

“I have no idea how many of them have had military training before,” he tells me later with a chuckle.

“We need to call it something else,” Mitchell offered with a chuckle.

She would of course always come clean, after everyone enjoyed an awkward chuckle.

“During the test, we tried all the dances and I nailed none of them,” says Boseman with a chuckle.

A group of local teens in the small town got a chuckle out of the “rich kid” driving a “funny ass car.”

Ruefully Aristide found no answers save in the general chuckle-headedness of mankind.

His chuckle stopped as lightning flare threw the shadow of a man across the ground at Joseph's feet.

Jones said this with a chuckle and a sly expression in his face, as he glanced meaningly at his companion.

"It would be a highly indecent spectacle, my dear," said the vicar with a chuckle.

His free hand closed over hers, but she snatched her own away with indignation that ended in a chuckle.

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