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chuckle

[chuhk-uhl]

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verb (used without object)

to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction: They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.

to laugh to oneself: to chuckle while reading.

Obsolete. to cluck, as a fowl.

noun

a soft laugh, usually of satisfaction.

Obsolete. the cluck of a hen.

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Origin:
1590–1600; chuck³ + -le

Related forms

chuck·ler, noun

chuck·ling·ly, adverb

Synonyms
4. See laugh.

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Example Sentences

MY family loves to chuckle over a photograph of me sitting at a table, doing our taxes.

But it is also designed to get a chuckle out of anyone following this year's presidential race.

Chuckle at the baggage container's fate, but be thankful no one was hurt.

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MY family loves to chuckle over a photograph of me sitting at a table, doing our taxes.

But it is also designed to get a chuckle out of anyone following this year's presidential race.

Chuckle at the baggage container's fate, but be thankful no one was hurt.

The disembodied mirth on the intercom is the control-room technicians having a chuckle over my brief discomfiture.

Laughter spreads through the room, and even a chuckle can be heard from the usually aloof king.

That's all the background you'll need to chuckle along with this report.

It is a kind of self-effacing chuckle that doesn't condescend, though his credentials would back that.

It gives me a little momentum and sometimes even a little chuckle.

Economists chuckle at these questions, in particular the second.

My acceptance of these allows me focus with a chuckle.

It makes me chuckle to think of what we've have to go through to replicate court tennis at our end of the world.

At this point, we'd usually chuckle and poke fun at a gadget so sharply focussed on one single job.

So, maybe anon can get a chuckle out of this, at least.

Even by today's wacky financial standards, your interlocutors would probably chuckle and show you the door.

We all chuckle at what a strange situation it is to be sharing drugs provided by the government.

Here are two new dice games that are sure to make you chuckle.

So that chuckle probably cost a few hundred dollars in damage charges.

One can only chuckle and keep dreaming that one day the mice will be relieved of looking after the cheese.

If anything, they try to patronize white audiences to get a chuckle.

Present are five forms of evil that makes us smile, smirk or chuckle knowingly.

As well as the goofy photos in the print edition, that never fail to provide a chuckle.

If you can't even enjoy a quick chuckle on a friday afternoon you are definately too pretentious.

One of his estranged children reported that he used to chuckle over the stupid black people he preyed on.

They provide endless fun and will always give you a chuckle when you're tossing them into the toy box.

With hysteria over the cow tax dying down, ranchers are starting to chuckle about.

The names and descriptions of the recipes make me chuckle.

The fact that thirty-five persons have lost their lives causes him to chuckle over his bacon and eggs.

Davis began to let out a chuckle when his fishing rod suddenly bent into a parabola.

The dinosaurs look great when standing still, but it's hard not to chuckle when they go bobbing off in their awkward gait.

He hides a dry chuckle behind his large, strong hand.

He continued to chuckle as he walked into a panel discussion, appropriately enough, about internet gossip.

The jurors turn to each other, breaking into a smile, even a chuckle.

She laughs a deep, full-bodied chuckle of the heh-heh-heh variety.

They chuckle at the thought that they are millionaires or even close.

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World English Dictionary

chuckle (ˈtʃʌk^əl)

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

—n
3.	a partly suppressed laugh

[C16: probably from chuck³]

'chuckler

—n

'chucklingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

chuckle

1598, frequentative of M.E. chukken "make a clucking noise," of echoic origin. It originally meant "noisy laughter." Chucklehead "blockhead" (18c.) is perhaps connected with chuck (v.).

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