Did you perchance mean one of these? chuckle, chuff, chuffed, shuffle
Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive Produce prusten.
- n. An uninterrupted sounding of prusten.
Etymologies
- Onomatopoeic, but compare chuff (the sound of the exhaust of a steam engine) and -le (verbal suffix conveying frequentativity). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“During a feeding this week, the cub gives off a chuffle - a greeting noise - as a zoo worker held her bottle and rubbed her with a wet rag to stimulate her mother's licking.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chuffle’.
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furfuthers, plightwretch, beefwit, chuffle, gananda, gorsen, riddlage, phalangarius, varigant, spunt, orthogogy, hapful and 27 more...
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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