Chuckle

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 77

chuk'l, v. t. [chuckled (chuk'ld), chuckling.] To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck; fondle, cocker. —??. A short, suppre ed laugh exultation or derision. — v. i. To laugh in a suppre ed or broken manner.