chortle

I’d scoff and chortle and avoid it, thinking that water was superfluous, extraneous, not something that would “make or break” whatever it was I was cooking.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

If Kate DiCamillo wrote a book about a box of Swiffer refills, it would probably make us chortle and sob about lint.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Now, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2023

He could wail and whimper, chortle and coo, often dropping his microphone midsong and finishing the verse in a naked roar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

Several of the Chumley singers chortle and snort.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

He chortles as Thoreau gets sick over a quahog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

It’s scathing; it made me snort rage chortles aloud as I read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

“What’s that shiny ring you got there? … Well, OK, I’m not gonna take it from you. That seems really precious to you,” he says as the audience chortles.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Everyone chortles and then moves on, but it's a silly joke that actually does have a well-intentioned meaning behind it when it comes to the bright condiment and ingredient.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

The hens spilled out of the doorway and started pecking at the grass with little chortles of glee.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

Muguruza regrouped and the crowd chortled, a fitting reaction at a tournament where the outlook has been decidedly cheerful, albeit with aging star players contemplating how many sips they might have left.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

Right now, the general feeling toward Pence among Trump allies is sympathy, said one Republican in frequent touch with the White House, who chortled and said, “Poor guy.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2021

“You should have heard yourself,” he chortled back at me, “you said ‘What country friends is this?’ in a thick South African accent!”

From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2020

It’s something of an inside joke and every time he punched the line, everyone chortled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

“Who is that lunatic, anyway ?” Colonel Cathcart chortled merrily.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“OK, I think I can,” he relents, before chortling and adding: “I seriously don’t want to.”

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

A large crowd, boisterously enjoying a dip whilst chitchatting and chortling, or a quiet night at home with nothing but your dip and a ton of chips and crudite.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024

A romance that can make a reader laugh aloud is a treat, especially if that book causes uncontrolled chortling in public, or punctures the silence of an otherwise quiet space.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022

But that doesn’t excuse mean-spirited talk of the ilk the councilmembers disgorged or tolerated — sometimes chortling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

They hadn’t been invited to the wedding—and wouldn’t have come if they had been—but the way they patted his back and rubbed his shoulders, they seemed like a chortling chaw of benevolent uncles.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill