What does chortling mean?
Chortling means present participle and gerund of chortle.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of chortle.
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.
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.
Use chortling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chortling means present participle and gerund of chortle.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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