chuckle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quiet laugh.
动词 v.
  1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
  2. To communicate through chuckling. transitive
    — She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.
  3. To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck. archaic,intransitive
  4. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck. archaic,transitive
    — if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together
  5. To fondle; to indulge or pamper. archaic,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Clumsy. obsolete

词形变化

chuckles plural chuckles present,singular,third-person chuckling participle,present chuckled participle,past chuckled past more chuckle comparative most chuckle superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English chuck
English -le
English chuckle
From chuck (“laugh”) + -le.
词源 2
Perhaps from chock (“a log”).
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