The definition of a chortle is a chuckle or breathy, gleeful laugh. The breathy laugh you make when someone is tickling you is an example of a chortle. To chortle is to laugh in a breathy and joyful way. When someone is tickling you and you make a snorting chuckle sound, this is an example of a time when you chortle.
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Studies of how climate change might affect agriculture generally look only at crop yields -- the amount of product harvested from a given unit of land. But climate change may also influence how much land people choose to farm and the number of crops they plant each growing season. FULL STORY.