"Chortle"

[sandyRoe]

Is this a strange kind of laugh?

I can't see it in my minds eye.  Can anyone think of an example?

[douglas9401]

You really need to try  hearing it with your mind's ear, Sandy.

[sandyRoe]

And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

      He chortled in his joy

Apart from this I can't think of an example.

[douglas9401]

More than a giggle but less than a chuckle, brother.

[sandyRoe]

To you...best answer

[douglas9401]

'chortle'. Ta. 😄

[jourdain2]

It is one of Lewis Carroll's 'invented' words to describe a sound he was imagining. Like 'brillig' and 'slithy' - they carry their own pictures with them, wonderful stuff.

[Khandro]

A chortle is a vessel for containing liquids (usually alcoholic). It can best be described as a cross between a churn and a bottle.

[Peter Pedant]

I think chortle ( loud gleeful laugh) has an element of schadenfreude about it - funny and enjoying the victim's discomforture

pointing out a glaring error on AB always makes me  chortle.

I chortle alot then: I am a sad donkey

[jourdain2]

Khandro, is that true - or are we playing 'Call My Bluff'?  Brilliant!

[-SharonA-]

To me a chortle is a kind of Ohohoh noise from the throat. Not a real laugh.

[jourdain2]

Yes, a lovely answer, Sharon - I've tried it out!

[Prudie]

There is something on AB that changes what you type to chortlesplutters, can't remember what, is it PMSL?

[Prudie]

Obviously not....chortle

[jno]

Carroll seems to have thought of it as a cross between snort and chuckle. He came up with a lot of neologisms but I think that's the only one that's made it into the language.

The Finns have Toves, though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson

[Khandro]

jourdain;  //is that true - or are we playing 'Call My Bluff'? //

You can find out by 'Chortle' at:  [email protected] 

[1ozzy]

Yes Prudie "chortlesplutter" if I recall correctly.

One of our dear departed contributors explained it to me ages ago as a word a previous editor put in place to keep the site family friendly.

But I could be wrong, chortlesplutter 🤭

[Peter Pedant]

Yes, a lovely answer, Sharon - I've tried it out!

no that is 'hollow laugh'

difft use:  "Labour can be relied on for fiscal propriety " - - -  deserves a hollow laugh ( re to show it is not true - this  is AB) and not a chortle

[Peter Pedant]

as a word a previous editor put in place

incredz was on  R4 this am 0800 - what the previous editor? bless ! - No, Elon  Musk ( hollow laugh) and censorship on X. Our Eel is on Trumps side and allows pro Trump posts and not pro Biden....