Gasp vs Chuckle - What's the difference?
gasp | chuckle |
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
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.
As nouns the difference between gasp and chuckle
is that gasp is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing while chuckle is a quiet laugh.As a verb chuckle is
to laugh quietly or inwardly.gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
References
Anagrams
* *chuckle
English
Synonyms
* chortle * giggle * snigger * titterVerb
- (Dryden)
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