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chortle

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Noun, Verb (intransitive)
 : 
chor=tle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chortle has 1 sense

Verb chortle has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

chortlev. t. & i. 
     A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.
    "O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !
    He chortled in his joy.
    "  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chortle, v. & n.
--v.intr. colloq. chuckle gleefully.
--n. a gleeful chuckle.

Etymology
portmanteau word coined by Lewis Carroll, prob. f. CHUCKLE + SNORT

THESAURUS

chortle

Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk
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