different between chuckle vs crackup

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???k?l/

  Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From chuck +? -le.

Noun

chuckle (plural chuckles)

1. A quiet laugh.

Synonyms

• chortle
• giggle
• snigger
• titter

Translations

Verb

chuckle (third-person singular simple present chuckles, present participle chuckling, simple past and past participle chuckled)

1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
2. (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.

   She chuckled her assent to my offer as she got in the car.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
4. (transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.

   • if these Birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together

5. (transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to laugh quietly): see also Thesaurus:laugh
• (to fondle): grope, pet, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
• (to pamper): coddle, posset; see also Thesaurus:pamper

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from chock (“a log”).

Adjective

chuckle (comparative more chuckle, superlative most chuckle)

1. (obsolete) Clumsy.

Derived terms

• chucklehead

English

Alternative forms

• crack-up

Etymology

From the verb phrase crack up.

Noun

crackup (plural crackups)

1. A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
   • 1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)

     They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.