What's the difference between chortle and chuckle?

Chortle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
  • (2) "One-nil to the champions" chortled the 2,100 Cardiff fans.
  • (3) At first, all seemed fine, as we chortled happily away over how she only came up with the idea for the buses seconds before she announced them on air when she was being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and how surprised she was that it wasn't only twentysomethings from New York who turned up, but people of all ages from all states.
  • (4) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
  • (5) Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf.
  • (6) "If I were Kim Jong-il I would unify the People's Republic of Korea with the old Peoples Republic of East Germany and make everyone wear Supreme Liederhosen," chortles Bem Bamford.
  • (7) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
  • (8) "They're a bit daft up north, that's why," chortles Gary Neville.
  • (9) A seemingly endless capacity to out-chortle Bugs Bunny.
  • (10) closer to realisation after John Cleese told comedy website Chortle that he has struck a deal with MGM, the studio that holds the rights to the film.
  • (11) My father at 93 is bedbound and in a nursing home but I have heard him talking and chortling to himself – his sense of humour still somewhere there with the memory loss and confusion of dementia.
  • (12) The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of critics, with users of Chortle , a comedy website, voting for the winners.
  • (13) 2.42pm BST Time to chortle away at the latest in our series of brick-by-brick videos.
  • (14) Despite what the mainstream media told us, black women never stopped aspiring to possess the curves society so hated; we chortled in cinemas at Queen Latifah’s glee from a yes response to the age-old question “Does my butt look big in this?” in the 2005 comedy Beauty Shop.
  • (15) Seeing his life’s toil all laid out on one floor amounts to an “existential crisis”, he chortles, only half tongue-in-cheek.
  • (16) A Guardian and an Observer columnist have each won prizes in the Chortle comedy awards.
  • (17) If I don’t commit suicide, then otherwise my body is very healthy,” he told Indian television with a characteristic chortle.
  • (18) The Chortle comedy awards have courted controversy by shortlisting only two solo female comics, out of a total of 54 nominations.
  • (19) House of Cards, which we all love, is more of a melodrama,” Turnbull says, chortling for the first time in an interview with Guardian Australia.
  • (20) Photograph: Tom Jenkins “Although I’m a little hoarse today as I was cheering so much last night at the football!” chortles the ol’ (slightly husky) smoothy.

Chuckle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.
  • (v. t.) To fondle; to cocker.
  • (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
  • (v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
  • (2) Half-time Half-time analysis: It's like an end-of-season game in Italy," chuckles James Richardson, as he brings me my coffee ... because he knows his place.
  • (3) Then you’ll have two boats with the same name, and two with no name.” He chuckles.
  • (4) "I remember when I heard last year that Yorkshire was bidding to host the Tour and I must admit I chuckled.
  • (5) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
  • (6) "This is where the gap between my theoretical desire and practical politics comes in," he chuckles.
  • (7) Today he can afford to chuckle, in a financial sense as well as an emotional one.
  • (8) Mumford gives a small chuckle, and concedes I might have a point.
  • (9) The biggest problem is there aren’t any people,” he said with a chuckle.
  • (10) I'd have to say a lion because he's bigger [little chuckle].
  • (11) Royles also had to endure more or less the entire committee laughing at him openly when he boasted about consultants' high levels of job satisfaction, something the chuckling Mps surmised might be caused by their stellar pay.
  • (12) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
  • (13) She chuckled about that at a dinner last week with Arthur Sulzberger – the Times's publisher, who gave her the editor's job.
  • (14) One summer day in 1994, my best friend Steve – a gentle, jovial guy with the most disarming chuckle – called and asked me to meet him for lunch.
  • (15) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
  • (16) Then he chuckles into the phone from his office in New York, where he now works.
  • (17) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
  • (18) [Chuckling] No, we didn't have some barbaric practices in the NBA.
  • (19) Sandwiched between the adverts, the programmes were comprised of laugh track chuckles and a life lesson for the kids, one per episode.
  • (20) Elsewhere, the corpses are swapped for tragedy and the Muttley chuckles turn to whimpers.