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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



... provided him with an agreeable companion, a loyal friend, and an incomparable biographer. Of Sir Walter Scott the second and last, not much personal idea is obtainable. The few anecdotes handed down, and his father's letters to him (we have no replies), suggest a good sort of person, slightly 'chuckle-headed' and perfervid in the wrong places, with next to no intellectual gifts, and perhaps more his mother's son than his father's. He had some difficulties in his first regiment, which seems to have been a wild one, and not in the best ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury
... and his comrades, and to be the first to clasp the hand of the man from London. For the first time in his life his stolidity gave way to something resembling exhilaration. He cast more than one meaning glance at the chateau, and those near by him heard him chuckle from time to time. The horde of natives seethed back and forth as the tug came running in; every eye was strained to catch the first glimpse of—Rasula? No! Of the man ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
... numberless letters have been received by the publishers, making this eager demand; for Dick Prescott, Dave Darrin, Tom Reade, and the other members of Dick & Co. are the most popular high school boys in the land. Boys will alternately thrill and chuckle when reading ...
— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... Mr. Smith emitted a sort of bitter chuckle and said: "Jonah! That's the fellow that was thrown overboard by some sailors. It seems to me it's very easy at sea to get rid of a person one does not like. The sea does not give up its dead as the ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... chair and rejoicefully surveyed Button, who sat like a man in a daze, staring, opened-eyed, at the witness. For the life of him Sumter could not suppress a chuckle. ...
— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King


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