Perhaps ablend ofchuckle +snort. Coined byLewis Carroll in his poemJabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novelThrough the Looking-Glass.
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chortle (pluralchortles)
chortle (third-person singular simple presentchortles,present participlechortling,simple past and past participlechortled)