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Word Meanings - CHUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.

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  • GIGGLE
    A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
  • BOASTFUL
    Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
  • SNIGGER
    See THACKERAY
  • TITTER-TOTTER
    See TEETER
  • CHUCKLEHEAD
    A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. Knowles.
  • BOASTER
    A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
  • TITTEREL
    The whimbrel.
  • EXULTING
    Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant. -- Ex*ult"ing*ly, adv.
  • CACKLE
    gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
  • BOAST
    bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
  • BOASTING
    The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
  • CACHINNATION
    Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. (more info) aloud, cf Gr.
  • CACKLER
    1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
  • EXULTANCE; EXULTANCY
    Exultation. Burton. Hammond.
  • EXULTANT
    Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.
  • BOASTANCE
    Boasting. Chaucer.
  • BOASTIVE
    Presumptuous.
  • BOASTINGLY
    Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
  • REJOICE
    To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph. (more info)
  • GIGGLER
    One who giggles or titters.
  • TITTER
    To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow. (more info) Etym:
  • CHUCKLE
    Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.

 

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