{"id":13393,"date":"2017-01-10T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2017-01-10T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:29:46","slug":"giggling-wrigglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13393","title":{"rendered":"Giggling wrigglers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learnt a nice new German word today – kichern<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u026a\u00e7\u0250n], which means to giggle or snicker. Related expressions include:<\/p>\n

– ein Kicheranfall = a fit of the giggles
\n– Wir haben uns dar\u00fcber gekringelt = We had a good giggle about it
\n– anfangen herumzukichern = to get the giggles<\/p>\n

This also got me thinking about which words rhyme with giggle – there aren’t many, and few of them are commonly-used:<\/p>\n

– friggle<\/strong> = to wriggle; to fiddle, fumble
\n – higgle<\/strong> = to hawk or peddle provisions; to wrangle (over a price)
\n – jiggle<\/strong> = a weak, shaking movement; to shake, rattle, or wiggle
\n – liggle<\/strong> = to laugh and giggle at the same time
\n – niggle<\/strong> = a minor complaint or problem; to dwell too much on minor points or on trifling details; to fidget, fiddle, be restless
\n – piggle<\/strong> = a long-handled fork for mixing or digging; to dig or uproot; to scrape; to worry about minor points
\n – scriggle<\/strong> = to squirm, wriggle or squiggle; to scribble, jot
\n – sniggle<\/strong> = to chortle or chuckle; snicker; to catch an eel by thrusting a baited hook into its den; to steal something of little value
\n – squiggle<\/strong> = a short twisting or wiggling line or mark; to write (something) illegibly
\n – striggle<\/strong> = to complain about one’s trivial social problems
\n – swiggle<\/strong> = to wriggle, wiggle or squirm; to drink to excess
\n – wiggle<\/strong> = to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.
\n – wriggle<\/strong> = to twist one’s body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.<\/p>\n

Do you know any others?<\/p>\n

Are there interesting words for giggles and other types of laughter in other languages?<\/p>\n

Sources: Reverso<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a>, Urban dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learnt a nice new German word today – kichern [\u02c8k\u026a\u00e7\u0250n], which means to giggle or snicker. Related expressions include: – ein Kicheranfall = a fit of the giggles – Wir haben uns dar\u00fcber gekringelt = We had a good giggle about it – anfangen herumzukichern = to get the giggles This also got me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}