Chuckle \Chuc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chuckled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chuckling}.] [From 1st {Chuck}.] 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. [Obs.] --Dryden.
2. To fondle; to cocker. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Chuckle \Chuc"kle\, n. A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Chuckle \Chuc"kle\, v. i. [From 1st {Chuck}.] To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
They were ethnic Germans whose families had lived in Romania for centuries. I ate in a place they recommended, offered with a lugubrious chuckle - the Vlad Dracul.
He is serious-faced, but with a deep chuckle never far away. He can show exasperation, but has the Basque's approachability.
But to get back to your _ (with a chuckle) _ to get back to your question, there isn't any daylight between the White House and the State Department or the arms control community or Defense.
"There have been some real odd shapes _ real compact," Montoya said with a chuckle. "We don't always know what they do with our boards.
He's absolutely without peer," he says, adding with a chuckle that Trudeau is also a mysterious fellow who in his youth liked to drive around Montreal on a motorcycle wearing a German helmet.
Murdock said he knew Bakker "didn't know anything about lawyers." "Oh no-o-o-o," Bakker said with a chuckle.
Schoolgirls copy slogans into their exercise books and chuckle at a cartoon of ousted Communist Party boss Milos Jakes.
"I am just a monk, maybe a popular one, but just a monk," the Dalai Lama said with a chuckle.
"After the initial chuckle, everybody said there's nothing that says you can't do it," said Michael V. Gilberti, senior trial attorney in the U.S. attorney's office who arranged the plea.
Talking helps me and everyone." Teen-agers said they leave sentimental gifts for Anthony, things that might give him a chuckle or keep him from feeling out of step with the latest fad.
Of Black Monday and the gloom that followed, R. Richard Bastian, president of First National Bank & Trust Co., says: "I look back and have a reasonable chuckle at the whole thing.
I don't think very much in the treaty will be implemented between now and that time.' With ruddy cheeks and a rasping chuckle, Sir Patrick presides over one of Britain's truly global companies.
Matthew Francis's adaptation and staging not only hang fire, but they also encourage both players and audience to chuckle at the contrivances of this Ruritanian romance.
Ina Carlson still laughs at life despite two heart attacks and quadruple bypass surgery. "Why not," she says, with a chuckle. "That's what keeps me going.
'It's impossible to work out the real price of coal in Russia - it's fantasy-land economics,' he said with a despairing chuckle. For Russia's huge mining community, though, the better analogy might be a nightmare.
It's all competent enough, and the wisecracks prompt an occasional nasty chuckle.
But judging by Bear Stearns' performance in recent years, the danger of not making a profit is not that great. And now the really important questions: how does he spend all that money? The pleasing boyish chuckle comes back.