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Definition of Chortling
1. chortle [v] - See also: chortle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chortling
Literary usage of Chortling
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)
"First Ditto (chortling). You wag! Every "monger its jolly well-wisher is. Punch, "
10 1881, K191': Three crowds of admirers they chortled and cheered. ..."
2. Verse & Worse by John Otway Percy Bland (1902)
"With speeches full of unctuous guile Is chortling. laughing Loh. ... With oily
tongue in ample cheek Sits chortling, laughing Loh. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"... the applications of science, typhoid fever is turned into turnips, dysentery
dances in the dew on the dahlias, and cholera comes chortling as cabbage. ..."
4. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... was wont ruefully to utter that my finest heights of bliss were attained when
I had beaten him at cards (which was seldom enough to justify chortling), ..."
5. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE JOKE He'd even have his joke While we were sitting tight, And so he needs
must poke His silly head in sight To whisper some new jest chortling. ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"But to revert to Surrey, and chortling Charlie is my Darling, I break with a cue
needing some handling, in order to chalk my tip up to the Expectation of ..."
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