giggle

5 definitions • 6 examples

to laugh repeatedly in a quiet but uncontrolled way, often at something silly or rude or when you are nervous:

Stop that giggling in the back row!

a nervous or silly laugh:

nervous giggle There were a few nervous giggles from people in the audience.

I tried to stifle a giggle.

an occasion when you can't stop giggling:

get the giggles I got the giggles in the lecture.

something that is funny, often when it involves laughing at someone else:

for a giggle Just for a giggle, we hid his trousers while he was in the water.

to laugh quietly, esp. in a nervous way, often at something silly:

We couldn’t stop giggling.