To Chuckle

1. To laugh quietly or inwardly.
2. (transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
4. (transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
5. (transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.

Synonyms

• (to laugh quietly): laugh
• (to fondle): grope, pet, touch up
• (to pamper): coddle, [posset]