chortle

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

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

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, Israelis and others in the Middle East need to worry—or chortle over—his intentions there as well.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023

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

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

He chortles as Thoreau gets sick over a quahog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

“We’re going to be okay,” DeShon chortles, hopping ahead rapidly.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

They’ve made new friends, including several other Palisades evacuees, and Joe chortled when he told me his dear youthful bride has taken up pickleball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025

“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

“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

They chortled delightedly to themselves while I tried to come up with a different song to sing.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“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

“If Rishi Sunak can’t keep his own dog on a leash how is he going to keep the big dog Boris Johnson on one?” the caller asked, leaving the radio host chortling.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023

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

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