chuckled

Verb

chuckle (third-person singular simple present chuckles, present participle chuckling, simple past and past participle chuckled)

1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
2. (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
   • She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
4. (archaic, transitive) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
   • if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
5. (archaic, transitive) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

   Synonyms:

   grope, coddle

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