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.