Definition of Chuckle

Chuckle

To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.

To fondle; to cocker.

A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

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Chuckle Quotations

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Austin Peck

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Chuckle Translations

chuckle in French is glousser
chuckle in German is glucksen, kichern
chuckle in Spanish is risita
chuckle in Swedish is skrocka

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