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Giggle vs Laught - What's the difference?

giggle | laught |

As verbs the difference between giggle and laught

is that giggle is to laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way while laught is (obsolete) (laugh).

As a noun giggle

is a high-pitched, silly laugh.

giggle

English

Verb

(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.

    Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * giggly

    Noun

    (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.

    Synonyms

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

    laught

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (laugh)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1638, author=John Wilkins, title=The Discovery of a World in the Moone, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Other truths have beene formerly accounted as ridiculous as this, I shall specifie that of the Antipodes, which have beene denied and laught at by many wise men and great Schollers, such as were Herodotus'', St. ''Austin'', ''Lactantius'', the ''Venerable Bede'', ''Lucretius'' the Poet, ''Procopius'', and the voluminous ''Abulensis with others. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1665-1676, author=Sir John Lauder, title=Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They made this poor fellow beleive that he was only condemned to the galleys, at which he laught , telling that it appeared they knew not he was a smith, so that he could easily file his chaines and run away. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1679, author=Beaumont and Fletcher, title=The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=How Epidemick errors by thy Play Were laught out of esteeme, so purged away. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=William Ralph Inge, title=Christian Mysticism, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="For this sight I laught mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me. }}