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English Dictionary: Giggle by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
giggle
n
  1. a foolish or nervous laugh
v
  1. laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom"
    Synonym(s): giggle, titter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giggle \Gig"gle\, n.
      A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a
      light, silly laugh.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giggle \Gig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Giggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Giggling}.] [Akin to gaggle: cf. OD. ghichelen, G. kichern.]
      To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh
      in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with
      childish levity.
  
               Giggling and laughing with all their might At the
               piteous hap of the fairy wight.               --J. R. Drake.
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