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

She laughed, a low, sweet chortle that warmed me to my heart.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He chortles as Thoreau gets sick over a quahog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

“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

As Christmas chortles atop an all-terrain vehicle while wielding a .50 caliber weapon, it looks like the whole thing could have been shot with rear projection, the green-screen work is so shoddy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

It’s a happy, zappy song, full of chuckles and chortles.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

Last night, they visited the nest perched high up in a Jeffrey pine tree and chortled together, “which was good to see,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

When Van Peebles decided to try to make the movie himself, Hollywood chortled.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

“I mean it is,” Ms Barrymore said, and they chortled.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

“It sounds like something I would say,” said the humble ambassador, as he chortled out loud.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2019

“The best part is the doofus has no idea what just happened to him,” Zach chortled.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

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

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

Soon enough, I was chortling right alongside him.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023

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

When they’re pleased or excited, they emit a noise called a dook — a rapid-fire chortling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

I toss carrot bits into the cage, and a shaving-flying scuffle breaks out, finally settling into happy chortling and chewing sounds.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord