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chuckle
[ chuhk-uhl ]
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.
chuckle
/ ˈtʃʌkəl /
verb
- to laugh softly or to oneself
- (of animals, esp hens) to make a clucking sound
noun
- a partly suppressed laugh
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Derived Forms
- ˈchucklingly, adverb
- ˈchuckler, noun
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Other Words From
- chuckler noun
- chuckling·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chuckle1
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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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