chuckling

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

chuckling

  1. present participle and gerund of chuckle

Noun[edit]

chuckling (plural chucklings)

  1. (gerund of chuckle) An instance in which someone chuckles
    • 1988 January 22, Henry Sheehan, “Little Boy Blue”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      The shocked silence of the grown-ups is disturbed by the chucklings of the one hipster among them [] .