chuckle

Meanings

Plural: chuckles

Noun

• a soft partly suppressed laugh
• A quiet laugh.

Verb

• 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.

Synonyms

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

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