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Today's Word "chortle"

To express with a snorting chuckle on

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chortle \CHOR-tl\ (transitive and intransitive verb) - To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.

(noun) - A snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.

"Kip punctuated each of his sarcastic remarks with his customary, derisive chortle."

 

Chortle a combination of chuckle and snort. It was coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872.


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