CHUCKLING Synonyms

• an act of forcible exhalation

• being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter

• the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

• noisy talk

• a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

• talk or utter in a cackling manner

• squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

• make a noise characteristic of a goose

• emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

• a soft partly suppressed laugh

• laugh quietly or with restraint

• a foolish or nervous laugh

• laugh nervously

• a burst of deep loud hearty laughter

• laugh boisterously

• a disrespectful laugh

• laugh quietly

• a disrespectful laugh

• laugh quietly

• a series of chirps

• A social media messaging service limited to 140 characters

• make high-pitched sounds, as of birds

• a soft partly suppressed laugh

• laugh quietly or with restraint

• treat with excessive indulgence

• cook in nearly boiling water

• using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)

• a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement

• a special loved one

• a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• stroke or caress gently

• stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking

• sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer

• laugh quietly or with restraint

• alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance