different between giggle vs riggle

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a frequentative based on dialectal English gig (“to creak”), from Middle English gigen (“to make a creaking sound”) +? -le. Compare Middle English gigge, gige (“a squeaking sound; a creak”), Dutch giechelen, German kichern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

giggle (third-person singular simple present giggles, present participle giggling, simple past and past participle giggled)

1. To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.

   The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

Synonyms

• (laugh in a silly way): titter
• See also Thesaurus:laugh

Derived terms

• giggly

Translations

Noun

giggle (plural giggles)

1. A high-pitched, silly laugh.
2. (informal) Fun; an amusing episode.

   We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.

   The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

Synonyms

• (laugh): titter
• (amusement): amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???l

Etymology 1

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Noun

riggle (plural riggles)

1. (Britain, dialect) The European lancefish.

Etymology 2

Verb

riggle (third-person singular simple present riggles, present participle riggling, simple past and past participle riggled)

1. Archaic form of wriggle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dibdin to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ligger