chuckle
IPA: tʃˈʌkʌɫ
noun
- A quiet laugh.
verb
- To laugh quietly or inwardly.
- (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
- (transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
- (transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
adjective
- (obsolete) Clumsy.
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Examples of "chuckle" in Sentences
- HOUSTON Jake Delhomme has to laugh, a Cajun chuckle from the heart.
- * chuckle, chuckle* by Tom Murphy on Monday, Dec 8, 2008 at 2: 53: 02 PM
- Also recommended, if you like a good chuckle is his Nobel-nominated novel “The Phases of Harry Moon,” which you can find if you look.
- Space dust hasn’t changed much over time and there isn’t much of it (Alley’s deadpan delivery of this line raised a chuckle from the audience).
- They expected to get dashed to death at the bottom as they went flying down past the different floors, and heard a fiendish chuckle from the Frenchman above their heads.
- Falco's hooker-girlfriend wants enough money to send her son to a decent school; the john whom Falco sets her up with only wants a "chuckle" - a moment of sexual fun to help him forget who he is.
- Thompson is such a wry, friendly presence that his every utterance draws a chuckle from the faithful (most of the time a deserved one, though sometimes he'll say "thanks" and they'll still be in stitches).
- The latest chuckle from the radical right lobbying group "Family Research Council", via their email update list today: In a tale of ironic tragedy a new study reveals that the Democratic Party is literally killing its political base.
- What makes me chuckle is how Microsoft Excel has become the modern-day weapon of choice for any discerning would-be Senior Leadership Team ‘member’ – there are spreadsheets for this, spreadsheets for that – hell, they probably even have starched spreadsheets on their beds.
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