giggle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a foolish or nervous laugh
  2. verb laugh nervously
    titter.
    • The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom

WordNet

Gig"gle transitive verb
Etymology
Akin to gaggle: cf. OD. ghichelen, G. kichern.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Giggled ; present participle & verbal noun Giggling
Definitions
  1. To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
    Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.
Gig"gle noun
Definitions
  1. A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

Webster 1913