Meaning & use
Chortling
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Laughing in a breathless, gleeful way, often as a mix of chuckling and snorting.
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The children were chortling over the clown's silly antics.
She couldn't stop chortling at the absurdity of his excuse.
A note on using this word
Coined by Lewis Carroll in 'Through the Looking-Glass' (1871) as a blend of 'chuckle' and 'snort'; it's one of the rare invented words that became a permanent part of English.
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