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語源 1

From chuck (“laugh”) + -le.

名詞

chuckle (plural chuckles)

1. A quiet laugh.

   Synonyms: chortle, giggle, snigger, titter; see also Thesaurus:laugh

動詞

chuckle (third-person singular simple present chuckles, present participle chuckling, simple past and past participle chuckled)

1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
2. (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.

   She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
4. (transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
   • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together

5. (transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

同意語

• (to laugh quietly): see also Thesaurus:laugh
• (to fondle): grope, pet, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
• (to pamper): coddle, posset; see also Thesaurus:pamper

派生語

語源 2

Perhaps from chock (“a log”).

形容詞

chuckle (comparative more chuckle, superlative most chuckle)

1. (obsolete) Clumsy.

派生語

• chucklehead