Associations to the word «Chuckle»

Wiktionary

CHUCKLE, noun. A quiet laugh.
CHUCKLE, verb. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
CHUCKLE, verb. (intransitive) (archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
CHUCKLE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
CHUCKLE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

Dictionary definition

CHUCKLE, noun. A soft partly suppressed laugh.
CHUCKLE, verb. Laugh quietly or with restraint.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats