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▪ I. ˈchuckling, n.
[dim. of chuck n.2]
A little chuck or chick.
a1845Hood Drowning Ducks ii, Pretty chucklings.
▪ II. chuckling, vbl. n.|ˈtʃʌklɪŋ|
[f. chuckle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. chuckle.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. Introd. 148 The triumphant chucklings of a dicast over the official terrors of his situation. 1821Byron Juan v. cxxxiii, Mothers love their children's squalls and chucklings.
▪ III. chuckling, ppl. a.|ˈtʃʌklɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chuckles, or is expressed in chuckles.
1705Elstob in T. Hearne Coll. 30 Nov. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 108 Chuckling throats have squall'd. 1818Keats Endym. i. 236 The chuckling linnet. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. viii. (1871) 40 With chuckling self-complacency. |