Chuckled vs Giggled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between chuckled and giggled

is that chuckled is past tense of chuckle while giggled is past tense of giggle.

(head)

(chuckle)

(en noun)

A quiet laugh.

* chortle * giggle * snigger * titter

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)

* See also

(head)

(giggle)

(giggl)

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.

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

* giggly

(en noun)

A high-pitched, silly laugh.

(informal) Amusement.

We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles .

The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

* titter * amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs