chortle

I'll miss our chats and I'll miss catching him off guard and making him chortle.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

“I am trying to say it publicly to make sure he sees it,” Rogen says with his trademark chortle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

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

Making her way through the squalor, Kira remembered Matt’s infectious chortle.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

The name Hank McCune may be lost to history, but his short-lived television sitcom will forever be remembered for its chuckles, chortles, giggles and guffaws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Ken interjects in a flash, to chortles around the table.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

“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

“Oh, the river is a wild one,” chortles the owner.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

His small crowd chortled and ate it up.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 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

“Well, it’s true,” Harry chortled as they reached the top of the marble staircase, “If he hadn’t stolen Neville’s Remembrall I wouldn’t be on the team. . ..”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

The manager, a chortling woman full of a seemingly uncontrollable happiness, told her, “Great! Wonderful to talk to you! You'll hear from me soon!”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie