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单词 chortle
释义

chortlev.n.

/ˈtʃɔːt(ə)l/
Etymology: Quite unconnected with churtle v.
A. v.
intransitive. A factitious word introduced by the author of Through the Looking-Glass, and jocularly used by others after him, apparently with some suggestion of chuckle, and of snort. Also transitive, to utter or sing with a ‘chortling’ intonation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > chuckle
keckle1513
chuck1598
shuckle1598
cackle1712
chuckle1803
chortle1871
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > utter with a chuckle
chuckle out1820
keckle1857
chortle1871
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass i. 24 ‘O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ He chortled in his joy.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly III. ii. 25 It makes the cynic and the worldly-minded man to chuckle and chortle with an open joy.
1886 Referee 18 Aug. (Ware) Mr. Wilford Morgan has been engaged to chortle the famous song, ‘Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen’.
1887 Athenæum 3 Dec. 751/1 A means of exciting cynical ‘chortling’.
1888 Daily News 10 Jan. 5/2 So may chortle the Anthropophagi.
1889 Referee 29 Dec. Many present on Boxing Night fully expected that when he appeared he would chortle a chansonette or two.
B. n.
An act of ‘chortling’.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > chuckling > instance of
chuckle1743
keckle1820
cackle1856
chortle1903
1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 28 He would tell you..that he attributed his success..(5) to marrying Mrs. Business-Man—this last, of course, with a chortle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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