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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



... alone. I was so full of this that I couldn't think of anything else. And now I should like to ask you calmly, Miss Westlotorn, one simple question: Did you ever hear in all your life of such a perfect and unmitigated chuckle-head?" ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... a little gleeful chuckle. "It is the camera's fault, is n't it? I never thought of that. Well, if you think it's all right to give them away, it must be; but it did n't seem quite— hones, you know." She looked up still a ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... a chuckle, "we are somewhat up a tree in respect to that. We have held several family conclaves on the subject, and after much prayerful consideration of the matter we had finally settled on Gladys, but—well, since we've seen him the idea has been growing on us that ...
— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs
... old hen." She then called upon another surgeon, and had a second tooth drawn, as sound as the other. "What's to pay?" she inquired. "A shilling," said the surgeon. "Very well," rejoined the hostess, with a chuckle; "you left a shilling due in my house the other night, and now we are quits." "Certainly we are," responded the perplexed tooth-drawer, and the delighted old woman returned to her hostelry, to acquaint ...
— The Book of Noodles - Stories Of Simpletons; Or, Fools And Their Follies • W. A. Clouston
... firing in the questions with the speed of a Maxim. "Something worth while, judging from that mysterious letter of yours. What is the scheme? Why this secret meeting in the forest instead of in town? Why"—but the man he called captain interrupted him with a chuckle. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely


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