Chuckle vs Huckle - What's the difference?
chuckle | huckle |
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.
(label) The hip, the haunch.
* 1676 , A Way to Get Wealth , Book I, page 5
* 1687 , The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:
* 1837 , John French Burke, British husbandry: exhibiting the farming practice , page 392:
A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
A homosexual man.
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As nouns the difference between chuckle and huckle
is that chuckle is a quiet laugh while huckle is the hip, the haunch.As a verb chuckle
is to laugh quietly or inwardly.chuckle
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Synonyms
* chortle * giggle * snigger * titterVerb
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Synonyms
* See alsohuckle
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Noun
(en noun)- (Udall)