Definition of "chuckle"

A quiet laugh.  examples

To laugh quietly or inwardly.  examples

(transitive) To communicate through chuckling.  examples

(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.

(transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.  quotations

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

(obsolete) Clumsy.