The difference between Chuckle and Titter
When used as nouns, chuckle means a quiet laugh, whereas titter means a nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
When used as verbs, chuckle means to laugh quietly or inwardly, whereas titter means to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chuckle and Titter
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Chuckle as a noun:
A quiet laugh.
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Chuckle as a verb:
To laugh quietly or inwardly.
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Chuckle as a verb (transitive):
To communicate through chuckling.
Examples:
"She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car."
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Chuckle as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
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Chuckle as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
Examples:
"rfquotek John Dryden"
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Chuckle as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
Examples:
"rfquotek John Dryden"
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Titter as a verb:
To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
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Titter as a verb (obsolete):
To teeter; to seesaw.
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Titter as a noun:
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
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Titter as a noun (slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural):
A woman's breast.