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giggle

/gig-uhl/US // ˈgɪg əl //UK // (ˈɡɪɡəl) //

咯咯笑,傻笑,咯咯地笑,嬉笑

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v.无主动词 verb
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    gig·gled, gig·gling.

    • : to laugh in a silly, often high-pitched way, especially with short, repeated gasps and titters, as from juvenile or ill-concealed amusement or nervous embarrassment.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a silly, spasmodic laugh; titter.
    • : Slang. an amusing experience, incident, etc.: Going to a silly movie was always a giggle.

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Examples

  • The first time he sat in a room with his cousin Sam—hardly more than a baby himself—Otto erupted in giggles we’d never heard from him.

  • So just for a giggle — I’ll be honest here, just for a giggle — we ran off a roundabout calendar to give to our customers.

  • “So cute,” the female speaker responds, breaking out into giggles.

  • Diamond Miller is the lanky, 6-foot-3 New Jersey native from a family of basketball players who is quick to flash a smile and share a giggle.

  • Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways.

  • They will shriek and giggle, half-scared and half-delighted, when their father pretends to be a monster that will eat them up.

  • The Golden Girls can make you giggle, then wipe a tear, in a twenty-second span.

  • The second he does, her giggle sends the Queen of Spades cascading to the brown tile floor below.

  • I spend waking hours in a fog of delirium, punctuated by uncontrollable giggle fits, heart palpitations, and mental anguish.

  • But Camille had to play her part—so she got mad at Sebastian on camera, trying not to giggle through the scene.

  • She laughed a little hollow laugh—a poor little, weak, stagey giggle.

  • Others will receive every observation with a little hysterical giggle.

  • Chasing close behind the musical contagion of his deep guffaws followed the softer, gentler giggle of the dainty pink-veiled lady.

  • Although used to the nonsense of the children, Sarah couldn't entirely repress a giggle as Kitty glared at her.

  • Here Mrs. Twitchel looked up from her knitting, with apologetic giggle at Mrs. Brown.