giggler
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]giggler (plural gigglers)
- A person who giggles, or an inanimate object that can emanate laughter.
- 1918, Carl Sandburg, “Band Concert”, in Cornhuskers[1], page 24:
- Band concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God knows, gigglers, rivaling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable Blues.
- 1967, Nadine Gordimer, “An Intruder”, in Livingstone's Companions, New York: Viking, published 1971, page 83:
- She was not a giggler, despite her extreme youth, and she smiled the small slow smile that men brought to her face without knowing why.