verb, noun
verb ~ (at / about sb/sth) to laugh in a silly way because you are amused, embarrassed or nervous:
[V] The girls giggled at the joke. * They giggled nervously as they waited for their turn. * She giggled with delight. [also Vspeech]
Part of speech: noun
1 [C] a slight silly repeated laugh:
She gave a nervous giggle. * Matt collapsed into giggles and hung up the phone.
2 [sing.] (BrE, informal) a thing that you think is amusing:
We only did it for a giggle.
3 (the giggles) [pl.] (informal) continuous giggling that you cannot control or stop:
I get the giggles when I'm nervous. * She had a fit of the giggles and had to leave the room. * It's just something about the way he said it that gave me the giggles.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for giggle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is giggle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, giggle is tagged as noun.
Does giggle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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