giggle

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• /ˈɡɪɡl̩/
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• CMU ARPABET: G IH1 G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Early 16th century, probably of imitative origin. Or, perhaps a frequentative based on dialectal English gig (“to creak”), from Middle English gigen (“to make a creaking sound”) + -le; or perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin: compare Saterland Frisian güüchelje (“to giggle”), West Frisian giechelje (“to giggle”), Dutch giechelen (“to giggle”), German Low German giecheln (“to giggle”), dialectal German giggln, gigglen (“to giggle”), German gickeln (“to giggle”). All of these words are likely onomatopoeic as well. Also compare Alemannic German Guege (“fiddle”).

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِفْتِرَار (iftirār) — laugh
• Arabic: اِنْكِلَال (inkilāl) — laugh
• Bulgarian: кикот (kikot) — laugh
• Bulgarian: хихикане (hihikane) — laugh
• Catalan: rialleta — laugh
• Danish: fnis — laugh
• Dutch: gegiechel — laugh
• Finnish: kikatus — laugh
• French: gloussement — laugh
• Galician: risiña — laugh
• Georgian: ხითხითი (xitxiti) — laugh
• German: Gekicher — laugh
• Greek: χάχανο (cháchano) — laugh
• Macedonian: кикот (kikot) — laugh
• Macedonian: кикотница (kikotnica) — laugh
• Norwegian: fnising — laugh
• Norwegian: knising — laugh
• Persian: ریسه (rise) — laugh
• Polish: chichot — laugh
• Portuguese: risadinha — laugh
• Russian: хихи́канье (xixíkanʹje) — laugh
• Spanish: risita — laugh
• Turkish: kıkırdama — laugh
• Welsh: cilchwerthiniad — laugh
• Welsh: piff — laugh
• Arabic: قَهْقَهَ (qahqaha) — laugh
• Basque: barre egin — laugh
• Bulgarian: кикотя се (kikotja se) — laugh
• Bulgarian: хихикам (hihikam) — laugh
• Chinese Mandarin: 傻笑 (shǎxiào) — laugh
• Chinese Mandarin: 痴笑 (chīxiào) — laugh
• Chinese Mandarin: 嘻 (xī) — laugh
• Czech: chichotat se — laugh
• Czech: hihňat se — laugh
• Danish: fnise — laugh
• Dutch: giechelen — laugh
• Esperanto: subridi — laugh
• Esperanto: subridaĉi — laugh
• Esperanto: klukridi — laugh
• Estonian: itsitama — laugh
• Finnish: kikattaa — laugh
• Finnish: tirskua — laugh
• French: glousser — laugh
• French: ricaner — laugh
• Galician: rir — laugh
• Georgian: ხითხითებს (xitxitebs) — laugh
• German: kichern — laugh
• Greek: χαχανίζω (chachanízo) — laugh
• Ancient Greek: κιχλίζω (kikhlízō) — laugh
• Hungarian: kuncog — laugh
• Hungarian: vihog — laugh
• Icelandic: flissa — laugh
• Ingrian: kitissä — laugh
• Italian: ridacchiare — laugh
• Japanese: くすくす笑う (kusukusu warau) — laugh
• Japanese: けらけら笑う (kerakera warau) — laugh
• Lithuanian: kikenti — laugh
• Macedonian: кикоти (kikoti) — laugh
• Macedonian: се кикоти (se kikoti) — laugh
• Māori: tīhohe — laugh
• Māori: tīhohehohe — laugh
• Māori: kata tīhohehohe — laugh
• Norwegian: fnise — laugh
• Norwegian: knise — laugh
• Persian: ریسه رفتن — laugh
• Polish: chichotać — laugh
• Portuguese: dar risadinhas — laugh
• Romanian: chicoti — laugh
• Russian: хихи́кать (xixíkatʹ) — laugh
• Russian: хихи́кнуть (xixíknutʹ) — laugh
• Spanish: reír[se] tontamente — laugh
• Spanish: soltar risitas — laugh
• Swedish: fnittra — laugh
• Swedish: fnissa — laugh
• Tagalog: bungisngis — laugh
• Tibetan: གྱོད་དགོད་རྒྱག (gyod dgod rgyag) — laugh
• Tibetan: གྱོད་དགོད་ཤོར (gyod dgod shor) — laugh
• Turkish: kıkırdamak — laugh
• Ukrainian: хихи́кати (xyxýkaty) — laugh
• Welsh: piffian — laugh
• Welsh: cilchwerthin — laugh
• Yiddish: כיכיקען (khikhiken) — laugh