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snicker

[ snik-er ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.


verb (used with object)

  1. to utter with a snicker.

noun

  1. a snickering laugh.

snicker

/ ˈsnɪkə /

noun

  1. a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled


verb

  1. to utter such a laugh Equivalent term (in Britain and certain other countries)snigger
  2. (of a horse) to whinny

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Other Words From

  • snicker·ing·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of snicker1

First recorded in 1685–95; of expressive origin

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Word History and Origins

Origin of snicker1

C17: probably of imitative origin

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Example Sentences

There were plenty of snickers and jokes about who would be the No.

The attitude of the local colleagues at first puzzled us, and then made us snicker in a superior way.

Brace yourself, friends, for the new hate-and-snicker-fest on the right about the Obamacare numbers.

Each time I tried to begin a story, each time I said the word “gay” or “lesbian” or “transgender,” the gendarmes began to snicker.

He offered little evidence to that, and his testimony was reported to have made some of the jurors snicker.

“It sounds horrible,” Hef says on the phone from the Mansion in Los Angeles, punctuating his sarcasm with a snicker.

Enslee began to snicker again, taking some support in his shame from another man's disgrace.

Jest tell her there's more Smithses wanted an' she'll leave the Greenses 'thout a snicker.'

A gratified snore from Dee and Miss Cox with a little snicker went to her room.

The snicker grew to a laugh—a laugh with a thread of grim menace in it, and a tinge of mounting man-hysteria.

You see, I'm goin' to croak 'fore long—oh, you don't need to snicker; 't's a fact.

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