Meaning

1 senses

  1. To laugh with a chortle or chortles.

    The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.

    glucksen

    laugh quietly or with restraint

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The audience chortled because that’s funny.

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  2. Alfred chortled with delight, and clapped his hands before his face.

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  3. "Chortle" was a nonce word when it was first created, but now it's a regular English word.

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Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
to laugh with a chortle or chortles:

Origin

Perhaps a blend of chuckle + snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, compl

Perhaps a blend of chuckle + snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Forms

chortles, chortling, chortled, chortled
Base formchortle · to chortle
3rd person singularchortles
Present participlechortling
Past simplechortled
Past participlechortled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theychortle
he, she, itchortles

Past simpleLesson

all personschortled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave chortled
he, she, ithas chortled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill chortle

Synonyms

2 synonyms
chuckleB1
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedchortlerchortlinglysnortle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
choreographchoreographerchoreographyC2chorizochoruschow
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