giggle

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I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nervous smile/laugh/giggle
▪ ‘It doesn’t matter,’ she said, with a nervous smile.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
again
▪ He tucks me up and he tucks Radish up too, and he kisses both our noses which makes me giggle again.
▪ We climbed up again and rolled down a second time, Mom sighing and giggling again, again.
NOUN
girl
▪ The girls would giggle and tell risqué stories.
▪ The other girls were giggling every step of the way.
▪ A girl giggled outside, steps sounded.
▪ And then the girl had giggled, in what Folly now realised was probably a nervous reaction.
▪ While the girls paraded upstairs, giggling at the glimmer of flesh they showed each other, Madeleine set to again.
VERB
begin
▪ Then one day we both began to giggle over what we had found out.
start
▪ As she dried herself, banging her elbows against the sides of the small compartment, she started to giggle.
▪ But Lesley-Jane certainly did, and she started to giggle.
▪ Then, realizing there was no point in trying to get up, she started in on another giggling jag.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Linda and Christina were giggling at some private joke.
▪ She giggled nervously and went bright pink.
▪ What are you two girls giggling about?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Maggie had giggled and had indeed been comforted.
▪ But Lesley-Jane certainly did, and she started to giggle.
▪ He was giggling with pleasure and could not get the words out at first.
▪ She giggled and pouted as he chatted to her.
▪ Will the handsome minister save you? they giggled.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
nervous
▪ A few mouths dropped open and then there were a few nervous giggles.
▪ A sob rose in his throat, blending with an incredulous, nervous giggle framed by his lips.
VERB
get
▪ Has my colleague simply got the giggles?
▪ Miguel got the serious giggles as he ran from the car, stumbling over bricks.
▪ Earlier, in the sixth round, Hulka got the giggles when the contest judges asked him to spell haggis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a nervous giggle
▪ She collapsed in a fit of giggles.
▪ There were a few smothered giggles from the girls sitting by the pool.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fourth, after asking if it were April the first, collapsed into giggles and hung up.
▪ I stuck one on my forehead for an afternoon, received a good many curious stares from colleagues, and got the giggles.
▪ In the pew opposite Willie were two ginger-haired girls trying to smother their giggles.
▪ It had something of a giggle to it.
▪ The thought of him being ten years old made the children want to giggle but they bit the giggles back.
▪ Wary sufferers will have learned to suffer silently lest they raise stifled giggles rather than sympathy.
▪ Zen and Crystal put their hands on her tummy and giggle when they feel the baby moving.

giggle

I. gig‧gle¹ /ˈɡɪɡəl/ (past tense and past participle giggled, present participle giggling) verb [INTRANSITIVE]
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : From the sound]

to laugh quickly, quietly, and in a high voice, because something is funny or because you are nervous or embarrassed:
　 ▪ If you can’t stop giggling you’ll have to leave the room.
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THESAURUS
▪laugh to make sounds with your voice and move your face, because you think that something is funny :
　 ▪ He looked so funny that we couldn’t stop laughing.
▪giggle to laugh quickly in a high voice, especially in a slightly silly way, or because you are nervous or embarrassed :
　 ▪ A group of teenage girls were giggling in a corner.
　 ▪ She tends to giggle when she meets new people.
▪chuckle to laugh quietly, especially because you are thinking about or reading something funny :
　 ▪ He was chuckling to himself over an article in the paper.
　 ▪ ‘We used to get up to all kinds of mischief.’ She chuckled at the memory.
▪snigger British English, snicker American English to laugh quietly in an unkind or unpleasant way, for example when someone is hurt or embarrassed :
　 ▪ Billy stood up and started to sing, and one or two people sniggered.
▪titter to laugh quietly in a high voice, especially about something that is rude or about sex, or is embarrassing for someone :
　 ▪ As a nation we love to titter over politicians’ sex scandals.
　 ▪ schoolboys tittering over a magazine
▪roar with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a deep voice :
　 ▪ I could hear my father roaring with laughter at something on TV.
▪shriek with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a high voice :
　 ▪ Patsy chased him down the stairs, shrieking with laughter.
▪howl with laughter to laugh very loudly – used especially about a group of people laughing together :
　 ▪ His plays have made audiences howl with laughter.
▪in stitches laughing so much that you cannot stop :
　 ▪ It was such a funny film – it had us all in stitches.
▪guffaw /ɡəˈfɔː $ -ˈfɒː/ to laugh very loudly and without trying to stop yourself :
　 ▪ The audience guffawed at his nonstop jokes.
▪cackle to laugh loudly in an unpleasant way :
　 ▪ The old woman cackled at the trouble she was causing.

II. giggle² noun
1. [COUNTABLE]
a quick, quiet, high-sounding laugh:
　 ▪ ‘Catch me if you can,’ she said with a giggle.
　 ▪ Vicky suppressed a nervous giggle.
　 ▪ He looked so ridiculous I got the giggles (=started to giggle).
　 ▪ Soon the whole group had the giggles.
　 ▪ Margaret was seized by a fit of the giggles (=she could not stop giggling).
give somebody the giggles (=make someone start giggling)

2. a giggle
British English informal something that you think is fun to do that will not hurt anyone or anything:
　 ▪ Go on, it’ll be a giggle!
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪get the giggles (=start to giggle)
　 ▪ Now every time he looks at me I get the giggles.
▪have the giggles (=laugh in a way that is difficult to control)
　 ▪ The girls had the giggles, and couldn’t stop laughing.
▪give a giggle (=to laugh)
　 ▪ She gave a little giggle.
▪give somebody the giggles (=make someone laugh)
　 ▪ The way he was waving his arms around gave us the giggles.
▪stifle/suppress a giggle (=try to not laugh)
　 ▪ Britta covered her mouth to stifle a giggle.
▪collapse/dissolve into giggles (= start laughing a lot)
　 ▪ Victor tickled the little boy, who dissolved into giggles.
phrases
▪a fit of (the) giggles (=a short time when you laugh a lot in a way you cannot control)
　 ▪ The boys collapsed in a fit of giggles.
adjectives
▪a nervous giggle
　 ▪ She gave a nervous giggle before answering.
▪a hysterical giggle (=that someone cannot control)
　 ▪ The children were all in hysterical giggles.
▪a high-pitched giggle
　 ▪ The young man gave a high-pitched giggle.