chortle

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

chortles

1.
A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.
He frequently interrupted himself with chortles while he told us his favorite joke.
2.
A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

chortles

V_ing/Gerund

chortling

V_ed/pp

chortled

1.
(intransitive)To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.

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Đồng nghĩa

chuckle

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Perhaps a chuckle snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.