Re: put on weight not a link that not everyone can follow
Posted 17 years 5 months ago
Dan L wrote:
chortle
Thank you Dan for enhancing my english vocabulary !
chortle |ˈ ch ôrtl|
verb [ intrans. ]
laugh in a breathy, gleeful way; chuckle : he chortled at his own pun.
noun
a breathy, gleeful laugh : Thomas gave a chortle.
ORIGIN 1871: coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass; probably a blend of chuckle and snort.