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To chuckle is to laugh, but quietly, and usually with warmth. The sound stays in the throat and chest; it does not burst out. You chuckle at a small joke, at something you remember, or when you are but you are in a meeting, a library, or on a bus. It is not a mean laugh — that is closer to a snicker — and it is not the high, bubbly laugh of a . You can also say “a chuckle” as a noun: he gave a chuckle. It is an everyday word, a little gentle, not formal and not slang. Stories like it because it paints a kind picture: someone is , and they are not trying to fill the room.
輕笑（小聲、善意的那種；不是哈哈大笑，也不是笑人家）
組成chuck (an old word for a laugh) + -le (a little repeating action). So: a small laugh that keeps going a bit.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chucklenoun詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃʌkəl/
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A quiet laugh.
chuckleverb詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃʌkəl/
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To laugh quietly or inwardly.
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To communicate through chuckling.
- She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.
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archaicTo make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
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archaicTo call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
- if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together
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archaicTo fondle; to indulge or pamper.
chuckleadj詞源 2/ˈt͡ʃʌkəl/
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obsoleteClumsy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。