chuckle

Meaning of chuckle

verb
  1. laugh quietly or inwardly.
    I chuckled at the astonishment on her face
noun
  1. a quiet or suppressed laugh.
    Melissa gave a chuckle

late 16th century (in the sense ‘laugh convulsively’): from chuck meaning ‘to cluck’ in late Middle English.

Information about chuckle

  • The plural form of chuckle is: chuckles.
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Hyphenation of chuckle

chuckle

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • chuckle is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

chuckle synonyms

Meaning chortle:

chortle

Meaning laugh lightly and repeatedly in a silly way, from amusement, nervousness, or embarrassment:

giggle

Meaning give a short, half-suppressed laugh; giggle:

titter

Meaning give a half-suppressed, typically scornful laugh; snigger:

snicker

Meaning laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way:

snigger

Meaning a large bird with mostly glossy black plumage, a heavy bill, and a raucous voice:

crow

Words that rhyme with chuckle

Gackle, Spackle, beshackle, cackle, chackle, crackle, crosshackle, entackle, foretackle, grackle, hackle, hamshackle, mackle, quackle, rackle, ramshackle, ransackle, ranshackle, retackle, shackle, snackle, spackle, sprackle, tackle, unshackle, untackle, befreckle, bespeckle, checkle, deckle, freckle, heckle, keckle, kenspeckle, outspeckle, peckle, seckle, speckle, spreckle, aprickle, atrickle, banstickle, brickle, caickle, crickle, depickle, dunpickle, fairnitickle, fairnytickle, fernitickle

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