— chortler , n.
/chawr"tl/ , v. , chortled, chortling , n.
v.i.
1. to chuckle gleefully.
v.t.
2. to express with a gleeful chuckle: to chortle one's joy.
n.
3. a gleeful chuckle.
[ b. CHUCKLE and SNORT; coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) ]