snicker
to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
to utter with a snicker.
a snickering laugh.
Origin of snicker
1- Also snigger.
Other words from snicker
- snick·er·ing·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with snicker
- sneaker, snicker
Words Nearby snicker
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How to use snicker in a sentence
The attitude of the local colleagues at first puzzled us, and then made us snicker in a superior way.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBrace 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.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesJest tell her there's more Smithses wanted an' she'll leave the Greenses 'thout a snicker.'
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1 | Robert H. NewellA gratified snore from Dee and Miss Cox with a little snicker went to her room.
At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell SpeedThe snicker grew to a laugh—a laugh with a thread of grim menace in it, and a tinge of mounting man-hysteria.
Back Home | Irvin S. CobbYou see, I'm goin' to croak 'fore long—oh, you don't need to snicker; 't's a fact.
Tramping with Tramps | Josiah Flynt
British Dictionary definitions for snicker
/ (ˈsnɪkə) /
mainly US and Canadian a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled
to utter such a laugh: Equivalent term (in Britain and certain other countries): snigger
(of a horse) to whinny
Origin of snicker
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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