chortling
/ˈt͡ʃoɹtəlɪŋ/
chortling is the present participle and gerund of chortle.
Meaning of chortle
Verb
chortle (third-person singular simple present chortles, present participle chortling, simple past and past participle chortled)
- To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
- The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.
Noun
chortling (countable and uncountable, plural chortlings)
- The act of giving a chortle.
- She laughed—and then started, realizing how long it had been since she'd heard the sound of her own laughter. Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.2013, Ann Gimpel, Earth's Requiem
- This “feminist chortling” (as she [Rebecca Solnit] calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.2026 March 25, Zoe Williams, “‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Forms of chortling
| plural | chortlings |
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Questions about chortling
- What does chortling mean?
- Chortling means the act of giving a chortle.
- What is chortling the present participle and gerund of?
- Chortling is the present participle and gerund of chortle.
- What part of speech is chortling?
- Chortling is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chortling?
- Chortling is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃoɹtəlɪŋ/ (US).
- What is the plural of chortling?
- The plural of chortling is chortlings.
Words near chortling in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chortling (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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