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Chuckle   /tʃˈəkəl/   Listen
noun
Chuckle  n.  A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.


verb
Chuckle  v. t.  (past & past part. chuckled; pres. part. chuckling)  
1.
To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. (Obs.)
2.
To fondle; to cocker. (Obs.)


Chuckle  v. i.  To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.





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"Chuckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dorothy's laugh broke off midway in a silvery chuckle. "But something may have gone wrong with the telegraphic apparatus, you know. We might get the company, and find out if any other messages have been ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... and now and then a chuckle of pleasure or an exclamation of impatience would tell of the varying fortunes of ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells
... out and crying in a public place until the city and its whole police force had a share in his distress. Rashid, on his side, said that all that would have been in vain but for the sergeant's knowledge of the cabman's house. The sergeant, with a chuckle, owned that that same knowledge would have been of no effect had not Rashid once more displayed his keen intelligence. They had poured into the house—a single room, illumined only by a saucer lamp upon the ground—and searched it thoroughly, ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall
... can tell which way I'm going," said the red-haired stranger, with a grin that loosed a hollow chuckle far ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... him away, in the wake of the disappearing Chinese. The youth turned to Starratt with a chuckle: ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie


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