This week’s theme
Words coined by Lewis Carroll

This week’s words
galumph
slithy
chortle
bandersnatch
frabjous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(CHOR-tuhl)

MEANING:

noun: A joyful laugh.
verb tr., intr.: To laugh in a joyful manner.

ETYMOLOGY:

Coined by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. A blend of chuckle + snort.

USAGE:

“How the 1-percenters would chortle at the thought that the three currently highest valued state houses in the country outside Auckland ... when added together could barely purchase the boat ramp and perhaps a bathroom door on the incinerated Waiheke estate.”
Rosemary McLeod; Lifestyles of the Flaming Rich; The Dominion Post (New Zealand); Mar 17, 2016.

See more usage examples of chortle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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