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giggles

giggles is the plural of giggle.

giggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of giggle.

Meaning of giggle

Noun

giggle (plural giggles)

  1. A high-pitched, silly laugh.
    • My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a...1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77
    Synonyms:
    titter
  2. (informal) Fun; an amusing episode.
    • We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.
    Synonyms:
    amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh, laughs

See all 3 meanings of giggle

Noun

giggles pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.
    • She was seized with a bad case of the giggles.

Words formed from giggles

Phrases with giggles

Questions about giggles

What does giggles mean?
Giggles means an attack of uncontrolled giggling.
What is giggles the plural of?
Giggles is the plural of giggle.
What part of speech is giggles?
Giggles is a noun.

Words near giggles in the dictionary

  1. gigglemugs
  2. gigglepuss
  3. gigglepusses
  4. giggler
  5. gigglers
  6. giggles
  7. gigglesome
  8. Giggleswick
  9. Giggleswickian
  10. Giggleswickians
  11. gigglier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: giggles (page history and authors); giggle (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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