chuckle
verbEtymology From chuck (“laugh”) + -le.
1
To laugh quietly or inwardly.
2
To communicate through chuckling.
- She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.
3
Archaic To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
4
Archaic To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
- if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
5
Archaic To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
- Derived terms
- chucklebutt, chucklefuck, chuckleheaded, chuckler, chucklesome, chuckleworthy, chucklingly