Definition of Chortling

1. Verb. (present participle of chortle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chortling

1. chortle [v] - See also: chortle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chortling

chorology
chorometry
choropleth map
choros
chorred
chorrin
chorring
chors
chorten
chortens
chortle
chortled
chortler
chortlers
chortles
chortling (current term)
chorus
chorus frog
chorus girl
chorus line
chorused
choruses
chorusing
choruslike
chorussed
chorusses
chorussing
chose
chose jugée
chosen

Literary usage of Chortling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Blendings of Synonymous Or Cognate Expressions in English: A Contribution by Gustaf Adolf Bergström (1906)
"First Ditto (chortling). You wag! Every "monger its jolly well-wisher is. Punch, " 10 1881, K191': Three crowds of admirers they chortled and cheered. ..."

2. Verse & Worse by John Otway Percy Bland (1902)
"With speeches full of unctuous guile Is chortling. laughing Loh. ... With oily tongue in ample cheek Sits chortling, laughing Loh. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"... the applications of science, typhoid fever is turned into turnips, dysentery dances in the dew on the dahlias, and cholera comes chortling as cabbage. ..."

4. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... was wont ruefully to utter that my finest heights of bliss were attained when I had beaten him at cards (which was seldom enough to justify chortling), ..."

5. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE JOKE He'd even have his joke While we were sitting tight, And so he needs must poke His silly head in sight To whisper some new jest chortling. ..."

6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"But to revert to Surrey, and chortling Charlie is my Darling, I break with a cue needing some handling, in order to chalk my tip up to the Expectation of ..."

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