chortle, chuckle
(noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh
chuckle, chortle, laugh softly
(verb) laugh quietly or with restraint
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chortle (plural chortles)
A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.
A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.
• chuckle
chortle (third-person singular simple present chortles, present participle chortling, simple past and past participle chortled)
(intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
• chuckle
• See also laugh
Source: Wiktionary
Chor"tle, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Chortled; p. pr. & vb. n. Chor"tling.]
Definition: A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]
O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay ! He chortled in his joy. Lewis Carroll.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
