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Chuckle vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

chuckle | gurgle |

As nouns the difference between chuckle and gurgle

is that chuckle is a quiet laugh while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between chuckle and gurgle

is that chuckle is to laugh quietly or inwardly while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

chuckle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quiet laugh.

    • Synonyms

    * chortle * giggle * snigger * titter

    Verb

  • To laugh quietly or inwardly.
  • (archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
  • (archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
    • (Dryden)
  • (archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
    • (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

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