▪ I. ˈchuckling, n.
[dim. of chuck n.2]
A little chuck or chick.
| a 1845 Hood Drowning Ducks ii, Pretty chucklings. |
▪ II. chuckling, vbl. n.
(ˈtʃʌklɪŋ)
[f. chuckle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. chuckle.
| 1820 T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. Introd. 148 The triumphant chucklings of a dicast over the official terrors of his situation. 1821 Byron Juan v. cxxxiii, Mothers love their children's squalls and chucklings. |
▪ III. chuckling, ppl. a.
(ˈtʃʌklɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chuckles, or is expressed in chuckles.
| 1705 Elstob in T. Hearne Coll. 30 Nov. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 108 Chuckling throats have squall'd. 1818 Keats Endym. i. 236 The chuckling linnet. 1837 Disraeli Venetia i. viii. (1871) 40 With chuckling self-complacency. |