Giggle

Verb

 * 1) To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
 * The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

Synonyms

 * (laugh in a silly way): titter
 * See also Thesaurus:laugh

Derived terms

 * giggly

Noun

 * 1) A high-pitched, silly laugh.
 * 2)  Amusement.
 * We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.
 * The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a stripagram at the bride's hen party.

Synonyms

 * (laugh): titter
 * (amusement): amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs

Adjectives for Giggle
rich; girlish; Mtiquatied; sudden; nervous; loud.

Verbs for Giggle
burst into—; convulse in —s; cure of —s; degenerate into —s; laugh in —s; set into —s; suppress—; throw into —s; utter—; — annoys; —bores; —disgusts; —disturbs; — interrupts; —sickens; —sparkles; —tickles; —wearies.

Adverbs for Giggle
nervously; hysterically; self-consciously; intermittently; abruptly; explosively; coquet-tishly; alluringly.

Thesaurus
Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, joke, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, prank, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, twitter, yuck, yuk-yuk

Pronunciation




Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 傻笑, 痴笑, 嘻
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: itsitama
 * Finnish: kikattaa, tirskua
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: くすくす笑う, けらけら笑う


 * Kannada: vyangya nage, kisi, kisiyuvudu
 * Macedonian: се кикоти
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: chichotać
 * Portuguese: rir
 * Russian:, хихикнуть
 * Swedish: fnittra
 * Yiddish: כיכיקען

Noun

 * Dutch: gegiechel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Gekicher


 * Macedonian: кикот
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: chichot
 * Russian: хихиканье