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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
giggle
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nervous smile/laugh/giggle
▪ ‘It doesn’t matter,’ she said, with a nervous smile.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ He tucks me up and he tucks Radish up too, and he kisses both our noses which makes me giggle again.
▪ We climbed up again and rolled down a second time, Mom sighing and giggling again, again.
■ NOUN
girl
▪ The girls would giggle and tell risqué stories.
▪ The other girls were giggling every step of the way.
▪ A girl giggled outside, steps sounded.
▪ And then the girl had giggled, in what Folly now realised was probably a nervous reaction.
▪ While the girls paraded upstairs, giggling at the glimmer of flesh they showed each other, Madeleine set to again.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Then one day we both began to giggle over what we had found out.
start
▪ As she dried herself, banging her elbows against the sides of the small compartment, she started to giggle.
▪ But Lesley-Jane certainly did, and she started to giggle.
▪ Then, realizing there was no point in trying to get up, she started in on another giggling jag.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Linda and Christina were giggling at some private joke.
▪ She giggled nervously and went bright pink.
▪ What are you two girls giggling about?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Maggie had giggled and had indeed been comforted.
▪ But Lesley-Jane certainly did, and she started to giggle.
▪ He was giggling with pleasure and could not get the words out at first.
▪ She giggled and pouted as he chatted to her.
▪ Will the handsome minister save you? they giggled.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nervous
▪ A few mouths dropped open and then there were a few nervous giggles.
▪ A sob rose in his throat, blending with an incredulous, nervous giggle framed by his lips.
■ VERB
get
▪ Has my colleague simply got the giggles?
▪ Miguel got the serious giggles as he ran from the car, stumbling over bricks.
▪ Earlier, in the sixth round, Hulka got the giggles when the contest judges asked him to spell haggis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a nervous giggle
▪ She collapsed in a fit of giggles.
▪ There were a few smothered giggles from the girls sitting by the pool.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fourth, after asking if it were April the first, collapsed into giggles and hung up.
▪ I stuck one on my forehead for an afternoon, received a good many curious stares from colleagues, and got the giggles.
▪ In the pew opposite Willie were two ginger-haired girls trying to smother their giggles.
▪ It had something of a giggle to it.
▪ The thought of him being ten years old made the children want to giggle but they bit the giggles back.
▪ Wary sufferers will have learned to suffer silently lest they raise stifled giggles rather than sympathy.
▪ Zen and Crystal put their hands on her tummy and giggle when they feel the baby moving.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Giggle

Giggle \Gig"gle\, n. A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

Giggle

Giggle \Gig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Giggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Giggling.] [Akin to gaggle: cf. OD. ghichelen, G. kichern.] To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.

Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight.
--J. R. Drake.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
giggle

c.1500, probably imitative. Related: Giggled; giggling; giggly. As a noun from 1570s.\n

Wiktionary
giggle

n. 1 A high-pitched, silly laugh. 2 (context informal English) Amusement. vb. To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.

WordNet
giggle

n. a foolish or nervous laugh

giggle

v. laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" [syn: titter]

Wikipedia
Giggle (disambiguation)

A giggle is a high-pitched, bubbly laugh.

Giggle or Giggles may also refer to:

  • Giggles the Pig, 2015 mayoral candidate in Flint, Michigan
  • Giggles (Happy Tree Friends), a chipmunk character from Happy Tree Friends
  • Giggle (comic), a British comic book that merged with Buster
  • "Giggles", an episode of The Little Mermaid
  • "The Giggle", an episode of Phil of the Future
  • giggle (software), a GTK+-based graphical front-end for git
  • Jimmy Giggle is a character on Australian children's television show Giggle and Hoot

Usage examples of "giggle".

His giggle passed unnoticed, however, for the Archdeacon was holding the case out to Manasseh.

After an extensive tussle, punctuated by whoops, giggles and female screams, the predictable result was obtained with Avis straddling his face, Eris his hips.

The other children laughed, giggling and pointing at the beleaguered boy.

He sat back watching the hugging and rejoicing, then slowly turned to leave, he felt a tugging on his ear and chuckled, Bitsy fluttered around his head and giggling kissed him on the cheek.

He glumly watched the two bondswomen scurry from tables to bar, serving up drinks, half-heartedly and with high giggles avoiding the searching hands that reached out to them.

The bridesmaids all looked like little girls to her, and she could see Alexis and Fannie giggling far ahead, but as she looked toward him she could see George, waiting expectantly with his young, shining face, for his life to begin with Helen.

As he walked toward the broch, Gweran saw Cadda, perched on the edge of a horse trough and giggling up at one of the riders.

The other buskers had to go around the corner to stifle their giggles.

Lady Caffa turned away, Babryan rolled her eyes heavenward, and all three girls broke out giggling.

Clarissa giggled when Capella was introduced, and said that everybody thought of that lovely little light opera, but Lionel and Clarissa was how they had been christened and there was nothing they could do about it.

They had giggled until their sides ached and then Cas had touched her and it was different.

She barely suppressed a fit of giggles as Cavilon wriggled his nose and cocked his head to acknowledge the woman.

Lang translated and Chi giggled, making the old lady hide her face out of embarrassment.

She nearly giggled when she recalled her challenge that Devall find a respectable person to supply her name.

I would have to stand and endure his guffaws until he finally subsided into giggles and took my dirham and told me which room was available.