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[ UK /t‍ʃˈɔːtə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɔɹtəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a soft partly suppressed laugh
VERB
  1. laugh quietly or with restraint

How To Use chortle In A Sentence

  • ‘Buddy's not here right now,’ the 18-year-old manager Mandy chortled with her eyes lighting up.
  • He posted my Facebook page and email on his site and chortled in his copy. Dale Maharidge: Bring It On, James O'Keefe
  • When my flatmates, years ago, chortled through Arachnophobia, I was rigid with terror and couldn't sleep all night.
  • When I indicate a "chortle", I am indeed chortling ... living proof of this has been captured on video, at the link above. Paper Trufflez
  • He stops, lets out a throaty chortle, and starts trucking straight uphill, cutting the switchbacks.
  • The jokes were funny - I chortled and snickered - but the plot was all over the place and lacked drive and, well, to me it read like a first draft.
  • The scientists in the crowd would look nervously at one another, the New Age types would beam and chortle. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Goin 'up, goin' up," Billy chortled, as they drove on through the winding hills past another lake of intensest blue. CHAPTER XIV
  • They talk about running the easting down," Mr. Pike chortled to me, as we clung to the poop-rail to keep from fetching away and breaking ribs and necks. CHAPTER XL
  • `Indeed no," agreed Maggie May with a bubbling kind of chortle. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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