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plural chortles
A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle. examples
A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds. examples
third-person singular simple present chortles, present participle chortling, simple past and past participle chortled
(intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles. quotations examples
'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.
1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky