to giggle
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1.0
- verb
- /ˈɡɪɡəl/
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reírse
- The children giggled as they played in the sunny park.
- make someone giggle
I'm an hour into it and I'm smiling and giggling who am I?
- I'm an hour into it and I'm smiling and giggling who am I?
- And we had so much fun shooting that I was giggling the whole time.
- She gets scientists and experts to giggle about how much they love their work.
- And he's one of the people that makes me giggle for reasons I don't quite understand.
- They keep saying it to each other and giggling.
- And she had kind of laughed and and my father said to him, you're giggling like a little girl.
- Some of his friends who heard him read from his works have written that he giggled all the while.
- I tried to approach her but she ran off giggling.
- We even giggle and blush and oh and ah, when we're being love bombed.
- Lisp and falling down up there always giggles old people.
- I wrote cover her mouth and giggle about American Girl Doll.
- But Andy's vision of and don't giggle, boys.
Examples
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It never ceases to make me smile or giggle for no reason.
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My husband was still just out of sight, giggling and clapping like a kid making mud pies.
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Boys shout to one another, and several girls giggle over a note one of them has received.
Academic text (1996) -
And we had so much fun shooting that I was giggling the whole time.
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You'd stop by my desk and we would giggle for hours.
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"When I asked her what that meant, she only giggled and put her finger to her nose."
Academic text (2011) -
When she began singing, the students giggled and made comments about her "silly" voice.
Academic text (2004) -
And the girls giggled and laughed, perhaps in order to hide their pity.
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No matter how far apart I put you, you'll sneak back together again and spend the night giggling.
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"Two hundred and thirty-eight?" The old man giggled, pleased at Gennaro's reaction.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
To make sounds and move your face or body because something is funny
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2.0
To laugh quietly to yourself when something is slightly funny
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7.4
To laugh in a short nervous way at something slightly funny or awkward
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1.9
To make a quiet sound because something is funny so you do not disturb others
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
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4.0
To laugh in a way you cannot stop because you find something very funny or feel embarrassed
Compounds
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Etymology
The word giggle comes from the sound gig-, which copies the quick, high noise people make when they laugh, like 'gig-gig'. So to giggle is to laugh in a light, silly, or nervous way.