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Definition of Chortle
1. Verb. Laugh quietly or with restraint.
Generic synonyms: Express Joy, Express Mirth, Laugh
Derivative terms: Chuckle
2. Noun. A soft partly suppressed laugh.
Definition of Chortle
1. v. t. & i. A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.
Definition of Chortle
1. Noun. A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chortle
1. to chuckle with glee [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chortle
Literary usage of Chortle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Blendings of Synonymous Or Cognate Expressions in English: A Contribution by Gustaf Adolf Bergström (1906)
"Punch, 17/e 1893, 282": Some as flatter yer would sell yer, — And would chortle
if they see our boat go under. Punch, "It 1904, 80: so it seems that our ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"chortle, verb (popular).—To chuckle ; to laugh in one's sleeve ; to 'snort. ...
It makes the cynic and the worldly - minded man to chuckle and chortle with ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"And it 's a great thing to be able to chortle for forty-eight hours, ... One who
Suffers" gives this hint, and when he can chortle about a sea- passage, ..."
4. The Bookman (1890)
"Which accounted for the chortle. 'They will have Grub,' quoth the Man. ...
The red chortle died on his white lips. His ashy hand shot into his black Pocket. ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Now and then I managed to coax forth a gaseous chortle or two. The convention on
the landing understood every chortle in a truly marvellous way. ..."
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