Of a person: To chuckle, laugh, giggle, checkle, v.

intransitive. To laugh. Cf. chuckle, v. 1. Obsolete.

intransitive. To chuckle; also, to cluck.

figurative. Said of persons. To chuckle, ‘to laugh, to giggle’ (Johnson).

To laugh in a suppressed manner; to laugh to oneself; to make or show inarticulate signs of exultation or triumph.

intransitive. A factitious word introduced by the author of Through the Looking-Glass, and jocularly used by others after him, apparently with…