2. Noun. The act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter ¹
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Definition of Giggling
1. giggle [v] - See also: giggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giggling
Literary usage of Giggling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages from the Journal of a Member of by Dora Knowlton Thompson Ranous (1910)
"Mr. Conway goes through this absurd performance with the utmost gravity, but we
girls can't help giggling every night to see him do it. ..."
2. The Adolescent Girl: A Study from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (1920)
"... giggling as a method of attracting the attention of the opposite sex; Adolescent
love of dress; Reveries concerning death; Suicide of adolescent girls; ..."
3. Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson, Hausa Association, London (1913)
"... a line of writing or print, shewa, whistling, shouting, the cackling, giggling
of women; see sowa. shi (cf. ..."
4. Ten Days in Spain by Kate Field (1892)
"giggling Nuns- |T was my last day in Madrid, and President Castelar had offered
to call at noon. " Too good to be true," I said, yet prepared for the best, ..."
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