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# chuckle

«chuckle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To laugh quietly, often with your mouth closed, because…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (chuckle, chuckles, chuckled, chuckling); noun (a chuckle, chuckles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To laugh quietly, often with your mouth closed, because something is amusing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#m1)

2) A soft, quiet laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it tells the reader a character is gently amused, not roaring with laughter; it often fits a kind grandparent or a sly villain. In writing lessons, it is one of many laughing verbs: giggle, chuckle, chortle, snigger, cackle, guffaw. Phrase: «have a chuckle».

### examples

- Grandpa chuckled at his own joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x1)
- She gave a little chuckle as she read the comic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x2)
- The audience chuckled at the funny line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x3)
- «Very clever,» he chuckled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x4)
- We had a good chuckle about the muddy football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x5)
- The sly fox chuckled to himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x6)
- “Hah!” said Kaa with a chuckle, “he has friends everywhere, this manling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: chuckled, chuckling (drop the e). Countable noun: a chuckle. Laughing words from soft to loud: chuckle, giggle, laugh, guffaw, roar. A «snigger» is an unkind laugh.

### In the corpora

- [The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/1/)
- [Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said Santa watched through the smoke alarm light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chuckle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuckle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.