chortling

comparative more chortling · superlative most chortling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chortle

plural chortlings

1. countableuncountableThe act of giving a chortle.

   This “feminist chortling” (as she [Rebecca Solnit] calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.

   2026 March 25, Zoe Williams, “‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   She laughed—and then started, realizing how long it had been since she'd heard the sound of her own laughter. Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.

   2013, Ann Gimpel, Earth's Requiem