Chuckle

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late 16th century (in the sense ‘laugh convulsively’): from chuck meaning ‘to cluck’ in late Middle English.


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From chuck +‎ -le.

Perhaps from chock(“a log”).


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chuckle (v.)

1590s, "to laugh loudly," frequentative of Middle English chukken "make a clucking noise" (late 14c.), of imitative origin. Meaning shifted to "laugh in a suppressed or covert way, express inward satisfaction by subdued laughter" by 1803. Related: Chuckled; chuckling.




chuckle (n.)

"a sly, suppressed laugh," 1754, from chuckle (v.).