Usually means: Soft, quiet laughter expressing amusement.
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  1. chuckling: Merriam-Webster
  2. chuckling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chuckling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chuckling, chuckling: Wordnik
  5. chuckling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chuckling: Wiktionary
  7. Chuckling, chuckling: Dictionary.com
  8. chuckling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Chuckling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Chuckling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. chuckling: FreeDictionary.org
  12. chuckling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chuckling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chuckling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chuckling)

▸ noun:  (gerund of chuckle) An instance in which someone chuckles

Similar:
chortle, laugh softly, sniggling, giggling, chuck, snickering, gigglement, sniggering, chockling, church giggle, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, wailing, lamenting

Types:
giggling, snickering, chortling, tittering, cackling, laughing, more...

Phrases:
chuckling lowly, chuckling softly, more...

Adjectives:
much, low, soft, loud, little, quiet, deep, intermittent, inward, internal, half

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     bubblegum pink, more...

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Similar:
chortle, laugh softly, sniggling, giggling, chuck, snickering, gigglement, sniggering, chockling, church giggle, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, wailing, lamenting

Types:
giggling, snickering, chortling, tittering, cackling, laughing, more...

Phrases:
chuckling lowly, chuckling softly, more...

Adjectives:
much, low, soft, loud, little, quiet, deep, intermittent, inward, internal, half

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     bubblegum pink, more...



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