verb (popular).—To chuckle; to laugh in one’s sleeve; to ‘snort.’ [Introduced by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass.—See quot.]

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  1872.  LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass, i.

        ‘O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
    He CHORTLED in his joy.

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  1876.  BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, xxxii., 242. It makes the cynic and the worldly-minded man to chuckle and CHORTLE with an open joy.

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  1887.  Athenæum, 3 Dec., p. 751, col. 1. A means of exciting cynical CHORTLING.

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  1888.  Daily News, 10 Jan., p. 5, col. 2. So may CHORTLE the Anthropophagi.  [M.]

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