Definitions for chuckle

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chuckle chuck·le

Spelling: [chuhk-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtʃʌk əl/

Chuckle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in chuckle (ccehklu).

Definitions for chuckle

noun

1. a soft laugh, usually of satisfaction.
2. Obsolete. the cluck of a hen.

verb (used without object)

1. to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction:
2. to laugh to oneself:
3. Obsolete. to cluck, as a fowl.

Origin of chuckle

First recorded in 1590-1600; chuck³ + -le

Examples for chuckle

Then the chuckle came again, and he added emphatically: "But I will!"

"Yes, prob'ly it was something about 'em," Pa assented with a chuckle.

“We need to call it something else,” Mitchell offered with a chuckle.

“I have no idea how many of them have had military training before,” he tells me later with a chuckle.

A group of local teens in the small town got a chuckle out of the “rich kid” driving a “funny ass car.”

Before you chuckle, the city is famous for its bagels…think crispy and almost scooped out.

“During the test, we tried all the dances and I nailed none of them,” says Boseman with a chuckle.

The sympathetic Toodles welcomed this opening for a chuckle.

Linda tried hard but she could not suppress a chuckle: "Of course you would!"

Miss Milbrey nodded encouragement, seeming to chuckle inwardly.