chortling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of chortle

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of giving a chortle.

   “She laughed—and then started, realizing how long it had been since she'd heard the sound of her own laughter. Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.”

   “This “feminist chortling” (as she [Rebecca Solnit] calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.”