chuckle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CHUCKLE, verb transitive 1. To call, as a hen her chickens. 2. To fondle; to cocker. CHUCKLE, verb intransitive To laugh heartily, or convulsively; to shake with laughter, or to burst into fits of laughter.
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