chuckle
Use Chuckle in a sentence
əl verb (used without object)
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
4.
a soft laugh, usually of satisfaction.
5.
Obsolete. the cluck of a hen.
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chuckle (ˈtʃʌkəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| '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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Example sentences
The jurors turn to each other, breaking into a smile, even a chuckle.
So that chuckle probably cost a few hundred dollars in damage charges.
It is a kind of self-effacing chuckle that doesn't condescend, though his credentials would back that.
The disembodied mirth on the intercom is the control-room technicians having a chuckle over my brief discomfiture.
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