chuckle

Plural: chuckles

Noun

• a soft partly suppressed laugh
• A quiet laugh.

Verb

Verb Forms: chuckled, chuckling, chuckles

• To laugh quietly or inwardly, often with amusement.
• laugh quietly or with restraint
• To laugh quietly or inwardly.
• To communicate through chuckling.
• To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
• To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
• To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

Adj

• Clumsy.

Examples

• He couldn’t help but CHUCKLE at his opponent’s frustrated expression during the Scrabble game.
• She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.

Synonyms

chortle, laugh softly, coddle, fondle, giggle, grope, laugh, pamper, pet, posset, snigger, titter, touch up

Anagrams of chuckle