Word Meanings - CHUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHUCKLE)

• Cachinnation
• Grin
• chuckle
• giggle
• snigger
• titter
• cackle
• Crow
• Exult
• rejoice
• boast

Related words: (words related to CHUCKLE)

• GIGGLE
  A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• SNIGGER
  See THACKERAY
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• CHUCKLEHEAD
  A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. Knowles.
• BOASTER
  A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
• TITTEREL
  The whimbrel.
• EXULTING
  Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant. -- Ex*ult"ing*ly, adv.
• CACKLE
  gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
• BOAST
  bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• CACHINNATION
  Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. (more info) aloud, cf Gr.
• CACKLER
  1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
• EXULTANCE; EXULTANCY
  Exultation. Burton. Hammond.
• EXULTANT
  Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• BOASTINGLY
  Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
• REJOICE
  To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph. (more info)
• GIGGLER
  One who giggles or titters.
• TITTER
  To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow. (more info) Etym:
• CHUCKLE
  Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.