Meaning

1 senses
  1. To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.

    The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

    I couldn't resist to giggle a little tee hee.

    kichern

    хихи́катьxixíkatʹ, хихи́кнутьxixíknutʹ

    хихи́катиxyxýkaty

More definitions
  • laugh nervously

Examples

112 sentences
  1. Tom is giggling.

    Том гигоче. — deniko

    ruТом хихикает. — marafon

    deTom kichert. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. What Tom said made Mary giggle.

  3. What are you three giggling about?

  4. The little girl giggled and ran away.

  5. Tom starts giggling every time he sees Mary.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
laugh:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
laugh:

Origin

Early 16th century, probably of imitative origin.

Early 16th century, probably of imitative origin.

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Forms

giggles, giggling, giggled, giggled
Base formgiggle · to giggle
3rd person singulargiggles
Present participlegiggling
Past simplegiggled
Past participlegiggled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygiggle
he, she, itgiggles

Past simpleLesson

all personsgiggled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill giggle

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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