Chuckling
noun, verb
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An instance in which someone chuckles gerund
"The shocked silence of the grown-ups is disturbed by the chucklings of the one hipster among them[…]."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of chuckle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Before morning he'd be up and down every chimney in New Amsterdam, filling the stout grey yarn stockings with toys, and apples, and ginger-bread, laughing and chuckling so all the while, that the laughs and chuckles didn't get out of the air for a week afterwards."
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