Κιχλισμός
giggling
Translated by Nick Nicholas30 Nov 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] soft and unbridled laughter.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κιχλισμός· ὁ λεπτὸς καὶ ἀκόλαστος γέλως.
Betacode
*kixlismo/s: o( lepto\s kai\ a)ko/lastos ge/lws.
Notes
- Same definition given in Pausanias the Atticist, the Synagoge, and Photius (Lexicon kappa750 Theodoridis). Other definitions include "whorish laughter, excessive and indecorous" (Etymologicum Magnum), "small laugh" (ps.-Zonaras), "strong laugh" (Herodian, On Spelling vol. 3,2 p. 535 Lentz, Hesychius).
From the verbkixli/zw , for which see kappa 1694 (and under gamma 267.
Linked from3 entries
- ι717Ἴσχεινto keep[Meaning] to hold. "It was not permissible [...] to chirp or to keep one's feet crosswise." Aristophanes says: "the door never keeps to receive them as guests." Meaning prevents, shuts out. In reference to those who…
- κ1693ΚίχλαthrushA kind of bird.
- κ1694Κιχλίζεινto giggle, to titter[Meaning] to eat fatty quail, or to laugh disruptively [or: arythmically]. In the Epigrams: "giggling, sending out a whinny leading to marriage."
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