Definitions
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- adverb While
chortling ; with muffledlaughter .
Etymologies
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chortling + -ly
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Examples
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And I'm not even talking about the kind of rudeness that prompted Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to leave chortlingly obscene messages on the answering machine of a blameless actor.
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Then Terry rather disquieted me by chortlingly announcing that they had put one over on the whole bunch.
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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