Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silly or affected laughter; tittering.
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- verb Present participle of
giggle . - noun The act of producing giggles; high-pitched
laughter
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Examples
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I stepped forward to the sound of muffled giggling from the crowd.
Sunday Post, Ruralshire, England. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Rachel Ray's giggling is getting worse - the first sign of meltdown.
Food For Thought 2007
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Monty Python songs - giggling is usually not the right things to be doing during that moment.
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A lot off giggling is going on when the men give them the smile.
Eric’s Top 10 Defining Christmas Moments » Scene-Stealers 2007
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See, the reason I knew Gini would be giggling is because I bought a sampler pack of used BPAL imps from das_hydra as a little graduation present, and when she guessed properly I had to lie my ass off to cover my tracks.
Conversations With Gini das_hydra 2006
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But Nora looked very cross; and as Jane persisted in giggling, the success of that picture was not quite excellent this time.
Melbourne House 1907
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I do not, sadly, recall giggling at Huge at all, despite the fact it comes advertised as a comedy.
Edinburgh Film Festival 2010: Day 2 (Pelican Blood; Huge) | Obsessed With Film 2010
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But we of course must not be understood to speak of what is technically called giggling, which proceeds more from a looseness of the structures than from any sensation of amusement.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 Various 1841
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Because of Dan Savage I simply cannot see his name without giggling.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Kids were just kids and not pre-teens, teens or tweens (a term a giggling twelve-year-old defines as an age 'when you are too old for toys, but still too young for boys').
Analysis 2010
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