chuckle

Etymology 1

From chuck + -le.

noun

  1. A quiet laugh.

verb

  1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
  2. (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
    She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from chock (“a log”).

adj

  1. (obsolete) Clumsy.

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