Vocab: Chortle

Wednesday Dec 17, 2008 – By Clutch

chortle \CHOR-tl\, transitive and intransitive verb

1. To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.
noun:
1. A snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.

Even Isaksson’s stern wife, who rarely cracked a smile, chortled with glee, and Old Mothstead slapped his thighs and flapped his apron and danced around the couple, who moved in ever larger rings amongst the kegs.
– Kerstin Ekman, Witches’ Rings, translated by Linda Schenck
Resource: Dictionary.com

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