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There is no record of how Carroll invented the word 'chortle' but, according to Martin Gardner, the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a combination of 'chuckle' and 'snort'.

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Lewis Carroll combined the words "chuckle" and "snort" to create the term "chortle" in Through the Looking-Glass.

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