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Definition of Chucklingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chucklingly
Literary usage of Chucklingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"Snigger [snig-u'r'],W.,v.to laugh derisively or scornfully. Sniggle [snig-u'l],
W., to laugh chucklingly or sneeringly. ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"chucklingly, Zillah Forsyth withdrew the special photograph from its half-completed
wrappings. "Oh, him?" she said. "Oh, that 's a chap I met on the train ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1832)
"... to the students at St. Bartholomew's, and adverting to the College of Surgeons,
he chucklingly exclaimed, " I told the big wigs how to make a poultice! ..."
4. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Fish (1905)
"... they too were defeated, and the spoils chucklingly borne off by the common enemy?
We do not mention the fact of many of the Whigs opposing the ..."
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