Chuckle vs Howl - What's the difference?
chuckle | howl |
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.
(archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As nouns the difference between chuckle and howl
is that chuckle is a quiet laugh while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As verbs the difference between chuckle and howl
is that chuckle is to laugh quietly or inwardly while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.chuckle
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Synonyms
* chortle * giggle * snigger * titterVerb
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* See alsohowl
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision