giggle
Plural: giggles
Noun
- a foolish or nervous laugh
- A high-pitched, silly laugh.
- Fun; an amusing episode.
Verb
Verb Forms: giggled, giggling, giggles
- To laugh in a silly, high-pitched, and often nervous way.
- laugh nervously
- "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom"
- To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.
Examples
- My opponent tried to GIGGLE off my incredible play, but I saw the fear in their eyes.
- The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.
- The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.
- We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.
Origin / Etymology
Early 16th century, probably of imitative origin.
Or, perhaps a frequentative based on dialectal English gig (“to creak”), from Middle English gigen (“to make a creaking sound”) + -le; or perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin: compare Saterland Frisian güüchelje (“to giggle”), West Frisian giechelje (“to giggle”), Dutch giechelen (“to giggle”), German Low German giecheln (“to giggle”), dialectal German giggln, gigglen (“to giggle”), German gickeln (“to giggle”). All of these words are likely onomatopoeic as well. Also compare Alemannic German Guege (“fiddle”).
Scrabble Score: 9
giggle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgiggle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
giggle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary