单词 | chortle |
释义 | chortlev.n. 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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