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n. A snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle.

v. To utter a chortle or express with a chortle.

n. A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.

v. To laugh with a chortle or chortles.

v. A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.

To exclaim exultingly, with a noisy chuckle: a vaguely suggestive word used in the first passage quoted, and since taken up by other writers in the sense defined.

n. a soft partly suppressed laugh

v. laugh quietly or with restraint

"Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle."

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chortled    chortling   

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