Chuckle
verb
To laugh in a soft, quiet way, often while feeling amused, pleased, or satisfied.
He couldn't help but chuckle at the funny scene in the movie.
Often appears as...
- give a chuckle
- suppress a chuckle
noun
A soft, quiet laugh of amusement or satisfaction.
Her joke was received with a chuckle from the audience.
Often appears as...
- give a chuckle
- suppressed chuckle
verb
To laugh in a soft, quiet way, often while feeling amused, pleased, or satisfied.
He couldn't help but chuckle at the funny scene in the movie.
Often appears as...
- give a chuckle
- suppress a chuckle
noun
A soft, quiet laugh of amusement or satisfaction.
Her joke was received with a chuckle from the audience.
Often appears as...
- give a chuckle
- suppressed chuckle
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Pro Tip 1/3Quiet Laughter
Chuckle implies a sound quieter than full laughter, often heard in intimate or calm situations.
She chuckled quietly while reading a funny text message.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Pleased
A chuckle can convey the person is feeling content, but doesn't want to laugh loudly.
After hearing the news, he chuckled to himself, pleased with the outcome.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Humor
Use 'chuckle' when describing a reaction to mild or subtle humor, not slapstick comedy.
The witty comment made her chuckle under her breath.
Pro Tip 1/3Quiet Laughter
Chuckle implies a sound quieter than full laughter, often heard in intimate or calm situations.
She chuckled quietly while reading a funny text message.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Pleased
A chuckle can convey the person is feeling content, but doesn't want to laugh loudly.
After hearing the news, he chuckled to himself, pleased with the outcome.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Humor
Use 'chuckle' when describing a reaction to mild or subtle humor, not slapstick comedy.
The witty comment made her chuckle under her breath.
Pro Tip 1/3Quiet Laughter
Chuckle implies a sound quieter than full laughter, often heard in intimate or calm situations.
She chuckled quietly while reading a funny text message.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Pleased
A chuckle can convey the person is feeling content, but doesn't want to laugh loudly.
After hearing the news, he chuckled to himself, pleased with the outcome.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Humor
Use 'chuckle' when describing a reaction to mild or subtle humor, not slapstick comedy.
The witty comment made her chuckle under her breath.
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Video examples
Stonehenge Has a Traffic...
they were pretty aggressive themselves when it came to the environment so part of me kind of chuckled at the idea of the this tunnel i'm thinking these guys would probably have you know gone and grabbed their uh cow scapular shovels and said where do we start digging but hopefully we could be a little more sensitive hopefully humanity
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Can you solve the dragon...
you decide to offer your life’s savings to one of the regulation wizards in return for the information, giving him your blank scorecard to fill out. But before he can finish, your boss walks into the tent. You barely manage to hide the scorecard in time, and the wizard excuses himself. Your boss chuckles.
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How to make a sad story...
The narrative style draws upon the perspective of children to infuse a tragic story with poignant humor. When the adults funnel decades of tensions over race, class, and family dynamics into their expectations for their children’s behavior, you can’t help but chuckle with recognition when,
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Reef Balls PIPE National...
artificial reefs - bill I'd rather spend eternity down there with all that life and excitement going on than filled with a bunch old dead people and we kind of chuckled and said okay we can do that and so they did and now the artificial reefs are the burial grounds for over
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Finding the transformativ...
actually the plot thickens right there when I start thinking about taste and how you could infuse the sensation of taste in pictures I started thinking about working with chocolate chuckle is a very complex substance in as much as it is it's a cultural invention as much
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Sebastian Seung: I am my...
awaiting a future civilization that is advanced to resurrect you. Should we ridicule the modern seekers of immortality, calling them fools? Or will they someday chuckle over our graves?
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James A. White Sr.: The...
He said, "And it's not me, because I like you people." And that's what I did, too. I chuckled, too. He said, "But here's the If I let you in, the other tenants will move out
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
chuckling the chances of a leper to attack a human they are very much high but here in Juma the lepers they are still behaving their natural life their
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What It Takes to Be an...
dream started when National Geographic asked me to help with adventures of the year the six-year-old boy and me kind of chuckled
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A whistleblower you...
here chuckle world champion whistling ago thank you
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Stonehenge Has a Traffic...
they were pretty aggressive themselves when it came to the environment so part of me kind of chuckled at the idea of the this tunnel i'm thinking these guys would probably have you know gone and grabbed their uh cow scapular shovels and said where do we start digging but hopefully we could be a little more sensitive hopefully humanity
Video examples
Can you solve the dragon...
you decide to offer your life’s savings to one of the regulation wizards in return for the information, giving him your blank scorecard to fill out. But before he can finish, your boss walks into the tent. You barely manage to hide the scorecard in time, and the wizard excuses himself. Your boss chuckles.
Video examples
How to make a sad story...
The narrative style draws upon the perspective of children to infuse a tragic story with poignant humor. When the adults funnel decades of tensions over race, class, and family dynamics into their expectations for their children’s behavior, you can’t help but chuckle with recognition when,
Video examples
Reef Balls PIPE National...
artificial reefs - bill I'd rather spend eternity down there with all that life and excitement going on than filled with a bunch old dead people and we kind of chuckled and said okay we can do that and so they did and now the artificial reefs are the burial grounds for over
Video examples
Finding the transformativ...
actually the plot thickens right there when I start thinking about taste and how you could infuse the sensation of taste in pictures I started thinking about working with chocolate chuckle is a very complex substance in as much as it is it's a cultural invention as much
Video examples
Sebastian Seung: I am my...
awaiting a future civilization that is advanced to resurrect you. Should we ridicule the modern seekers of immortality, calling them fools? Or will they someday chuckle over our graves?
Video examples
James A. White Sr.: The...
He said, "And it's not me, because I like you people." And that's what I did, too. I chuckled, too. He said, "But here's the If I let you in, the other tenants will move out
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
chuckling the chances of a leper to attack a human they are very much high but here in Juma the lepers they are still behaving their natural life their
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What It Takes to Be an...
dream started when National Geographic asked me to help with adventures of the year the six-year-old boy and me kind of chuckled
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A whistleblower you...
here chuckle world champion whistling ago thank you
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
American Businesswoman
My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.
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Red Skelton
American Comedian
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.
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Fay Wray
American Actress
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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Geoff Dyer
English Writer
When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American Judge
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.
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George A. Romero
American Director
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
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Eminem
American Rapper
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
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Jane Birkin
English Actress
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.
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Evangeline Lilly
Canadian Actress
Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
American Businesswoman
My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.
Quote examples
Red Skelton
American Comedian
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.
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Fay Wray
American Actress
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Quote examples
Geoff Dyer
English Writer
When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
Quote examples
Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American Judge
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.
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George A. Romero
American Director
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
Quote examples
Eminem
American Rapper
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
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Jane Birkin
English Actress
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.
Quote examples
Evangeline Lilly
Canadian Actress
Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
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