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[ verb ] laugh quietly or with restraint
Synonyms Used in print (Francis Pollini, Night....)He chuckled , the memory vivid . `` Four_cuts at_least '' , he chuckled to himself , `` and I owe it all to them '' . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)`` Not this old fox '' , chuckled Uncle_Randolph . |
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[ noun ] a soft partly suppressed laugh
Synonyms Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin_Goulding , the Jewish officer from Chicago , singing tearfully about the ould sod , no_one really thought it was strange . Related terms |
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