noun. A snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle.

intransitive & transitive verb. To utter a chortle or express with a chortle.

To exclaim exultingly, with a noisy chuckle: a vaguely suggestive word used in the first passage quoted, and since taken up by other writers in the sense defined.

verb. A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.

noun. A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.

verb. To laugh with a chortle or chortles.

noun. a soft partly suppressed laugh

verb. laugh quietly or with restraint

"Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle."

chortled  chortling  

express joy  express mirth  laugh  laughter  

immortal  mortal  portal  

cackle  case!  caw  coulalakritous  dimer  

Homeric laughter  be in stitches  belly laugh  boff  boffola  

chortled  chortles  chortling