(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.
Giggle
Definition:
(v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
(n.) A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
(3) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(4) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
(5) I remember standing by the side of the stage, thinking, "I'm about to follow the Spice Girls" and giggling to myself.
(6) He keeps trying to leave the interview and is giggling as he's pulled back.
(7) "He [Meyer] sat here giggling about his [Mosley's] shaved buttocks," said Davies.
(8) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
(9) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(10) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(11) But then the cost of armed guards to accompany them isn't cheap," Aken'ova sighs, before telling the two giggling women the price for bottles of massage oil.
(12) His lordship is desperate to avoid joining them, but as the weeks pass his occasional giggles at the absurd scale of his task begin to seem faintly hysterical.
(13) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
(14) Their encounter is a graphic and uninhibited coupling, but intimate and communicative, with the odd giggle, and each partner enjoying equal pleasure and control.
(15) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
(16) And with that, they both collapse into giggles, like a couple who already figured that out long ago.
(17) Bouchard, one of the rising stars of women’s tennis, had just won a match on Margaret Court Arena and complied, smiled and giggled – but looked as if she were taking part in someone else’s joke.
(18) It was as much as I could do to stop myself giggling as the bemused caller lost his thread and started fumbling for words.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) They order room service while giggling in their dressing gowns.