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▪ I. giggling, vbl. n.|ˈgɪglɪŋ|
[f. giggle v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. giggle.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) E iv, Loude gigling and laughing is but a foolishe signe And euident token of maners feminine. 1786Cowper Lett. 17 Apr., Wks. (1876) 231 There was I, and the future Lord Chancellor, constantly employed from morning to night in giggling and making giggle. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 19 Such giggling and bantering about the church-door. 1872Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley S. Sea Bubbles iii. 72 After infinite wrigglings, gigglings, and whisperings.
▪ II. giggling, ppl. a.|ˈgɪglɪŋ|
[f. giggle v.1 + -ing2.]
That giggles.
1611Cotgr., Ricaneux, tighying, giggling, euer sporting, dallying, or playing the wanton. a1625Fletcher Nice Valour v. i, A gigling waiting wench for me, That shewes her teeth how white they be. 1709Steele Tatler No. 49 ⁋4 If therefore the giggling Leucippe could but see her Train of Fops assembled. 1775F. Burney Let. to Crisp 8 May in Early Diary, A parcel of young giggling girls laugh'd her out of it. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 47 You have glances on every side of fresh country faces and blooming giggling girls. 1887Jessopp Arcady vii. 210 The giggling fool, who is the butt of the harvest field.
†b. transf. of a brook. Obs.
1640J. Gower Ovid's Fest. iii. 54 A giggling brook doth on much gravel fall.
c. said of laughter, tone of the voice, etc.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. i. vi. 36 To gygling laughter geeuen was Democritus alway. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 15. ix. §2 (1669) 143/2 The Saints joy and peace, is not such a light gigling joy as the Worlds. 1733P. Drake Grotto 11 And looks diviner graces tell, Which dont with giggling muscles dwell. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xlvi, A weak giggling laugh. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlvi, She..in a faint genteel giggling tone, cackled to her sister about her fine acquaintance. |