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a laugh that hedged its bets, joy on a budget but still clearing.
means To laugh quietly or softly, often to oneself, in a low and partly suppressed way.
from Born from the verb 'chuck' — an older word meaning to cluck or make a clucking noise, the kind a hen makes. From there 'chuckle' emerged as a frequentative, the form English uses for repeated little actions (like 'sparkle' from 'spark'). So a chuckle was once, quite literally, a low repeated clucking — laughter that never rises above a contented cluck in the throat.
- old roots
- From 'chuck,' a centuries-old word for clucking like a hen
- the science
- Real laughter is nearly impossible to fake convincingly
- social glue
- Humans laugh 30 times more often with others than alone
- ancient origins
- Laughter predates speech and exists in apes too
for instance
chuckle brothers — british children's tv duo barry and paul elliott who said 'to me, to you' from 1987-2009
chuckle sandwich podcast — comedy podcast by jared bailey, tara yummy, and hunter hancock started 2019