Chortle = laugh in a noisy, gleeful way.

“Books feed and cure and chortle and collide.”
–Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 2, 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art by Boris Diodorov (cover for The Little Mermaid).