Meaning

5 senses
  1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.

    kichern

    хихи́катьxixíkatʹ, хихи́кнутьxixíknutʹ, посме́иватьсяposméivatʹsja

    laugh quietly or with restraint

  2. (transitive)To communicate through chuckling.

    She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.

  3. (archaic, intransitive)To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.

    куда́хтатьkudáxtatʹ

  4. (archaic, transitive)To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.

  5. (archaic, transitive)To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

Examples

73 sentences
  1. Tom looked around and chuckled.

    Том озирнувся навколо та хіхікнув.

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  2. Tom chuckled and shook his head.

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  3. Tom chuckled to himself.

    ruТом усмехнулся.

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  4. Tom made me chuckle.

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  5. Tom started to chuckle.

    ruТом захихикал.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to laugh quietly or inwardly:
to make the sound of chicken:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to laugh quietly or inwardly:

Origin

From chuck (“laugh”) + -le.

From chuck (“laugh”) + -le.

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Forms

chuckles, chuckling, chuckled, chuckled
Base formchuckle · to chuckle
3rd person singularchuckles
Present participlechuckling
Past simplechuckled
Past participlechuckled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theychuckle
he, she, itchuckles

Past simpleLesson

all personschuckled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill chuckle

Synonyms

7 synonyms
to fondle:grope
to pamper:coddle
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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