chuckle

About 1.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A quiet laugh.
2. verb To laugh quietly or inwardly.
3. verb To communicate through chuckling.

   She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.

4. verb To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
5. verb To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
6. verb To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
7. adjective Clumsy.

Similar words

chortle laugh softly laughing laugh snicker titter snigger cackle giggle crow

Often followed by

and at of as over from that in to

Word family

chuckled chuckles chucklesome chuckling chucklingly