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chortled

chortled is the simple past and past participle of chortle.

Meaning of chortle

Verb

chortle (third-person singular simple present chortles, present participle chortling, simple past and past participle chortled)

  1. (intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
    • The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.

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Questions about chortled

What is chortled the simple past and past participle of?
Chortled is the simple past and past participle of chortle.

Words near chortled in the dictionary

  1. chortens
  2. Chorti
  3. Chortitza
  4. Chortkiv
  5. chortle
  6. chortled
  7. chortler
  8. chortlers
  9. chortles
  10. chortling
  11. chortlingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chortled (page history and authors); chortle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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