chuckle
咯咯笑,咯咯地笑,咯咯笑声,咯咯咯
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Definitions
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chuck·led, chuck·ling.
- : to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction: They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.
- : to laugh to oneself: to chuckle while reading.
- : Obsolete. to cluck, as a fowl.
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- : a soft laugh, usually of satisfaction.
- : Obsolete. the cluck of a hen.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
That punchline is met with what can only be described as a sad chuckle.
“Our location is strategic because Mongolia sits on the backbone of China, while punching the underbelly of Russia,” says Elbegdorj with a chuckle.
“I have no idea how many of them have had military training before,” he tells me later with a chuckle.
“We need to call it something else,” Mitchell offered with a chuckle.
She would of course always come clean, after everyone enjoyed an awkward chuckle.
“During the test, we tried all the dances and I nailed none of them,” says Boseman with a chuckle.
A group of local teens in the small town got a chuckle out of the “rich kid” driving a “funny ass car.”
Ruefully Aristide found no answers save in the general chuckle-headedness of mankind.
His chuckle stopped as lightning flare threw the shadow of a man across the ground at Joseph's feet.
Jones said this with a chuckle and a sly expression in his face, as he glanced meaningly at his companion.
"It would be a highly indecent spectacle, my dear," said the vicar with a chuckle.
His free hand closed over hers, but she snatched her own away with indignation that ended in a chuckle.