giggler

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

giggle +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

giggler (plural gigglers)

  1. A person who giggles.
    • 1918, Carl Sandburg, “Band Concert”, in Cornhuskers[1], page 24:
      Band concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God knows, gigglers, rivaling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable Blues.
    • 1967, Nadine Gordimer, “An Intruder”, in Livingstone's Companions, New York: Viking, published 1971, page 83:
      She was not a giggler, despite her extreme youth, and she smiled the small slow smile that men brought to her face without knowing why.