chortle

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  1. noun A snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle.
  2. intransitive and transitive verb To utter a chortle or express with a chortle.
  3. Word History
    "'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.” Perhaps Lewis Carroll would chortle a bit himself to find that people are still using the word chortle, which he coined in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872. In any case, Carroll had constructed his word well, combining the words chuckle and snort. This type of word is called a blend or a portmanteau word. In Through the Looking-Glass Humpty Dumpty uses portmanteau to describe the word slithy, saying, "It's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word” (the meanings being "lithe” and "slimy”).

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  • This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • God is a scientist. he has a lab with tiny viles and tubes in some of them are people parts there is never enough of hearts. he has trouble putting some of the parts together you have a crooked nose and i can't make decisions This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Maybe the mouse is Sarah? xD This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Come on, I know you guys missed my super sparkly colored pencil wolves This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • I belive in peace I belive in freedom, freedom of choice and freedom of speech This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
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chortle:   chortled ·  chortling ·  chortles
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Blend of chuckle and snort.

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  1. A factitious word, humorously formed from ch(uck)le + (sn)ort. See brunch-word.
 

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