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Snicker   /snˈɪkər/   Listen
noun
Snicker  n.  (Written also snigger)  A half suppressed, broken laugh.


verb
Snicker  v. i.  (past & past part. snickered; pres. part. snickering)  (Written also snigger)  
1.
To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
2.
To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.





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"Snicker" Quotes from Famous Books



... now?" Harrison wasn't fooling. I looked at Sol, on the seat next to me; I thought I had heard him snicker. He began to fiddle with his camera without looking at me. I pushed the "talk" button and told Harrison where I was. It pleased him very much; I wasn't more than six blocks from where this big rumble was going on, he told me, and he made it very clear that I was to ...
— The Day of the Boomer Dukes • Frederik Pohl
... 'n' folks, 'n' hearn 'em talkin'. Ray he stud on a platform facin' a big, powerful-lookin' cuss. Hed their coats 'n' vests off, 'n' sleeves rolled up, 'n' swords ready. See there wus goin' t' be a fight. Hed t' snicker—wa'n' no way I c'u'd help it, fer, Judas Priest! I knew dum well they wa'n't a single one of them air Britishers c'u'd stan' 'fore 'im. Thet air mis'able spindlin' devil I tol' ye 'bout—feller et hed the women—he stud back o' Ray. Hed his hand up ...
— D'Ri and I • Irving Bacheller
... There was a little snicker, as it were, in the air as his fangs closed, and the python, waking one-twentieth of a second too late, lifted its ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... latter grunted, as Betty glanced fearfully at him. "What did you come for? I suppose you think two rows of corn down flat is something to snicker at?" ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson
... now chose a rough quadrangle between the Blue Ridge and Bull Run Mountain, bounded at its four corners by Snicker's Gap and Manassas Gap along the former and Thoroughfare Gap and Aldie Gap along the latter. Here, when not in action, the Mosby men billeted themselves, keeping widely dispersed, and an elaborate system, involving most of the inhabitants, free or slave, was set up to transmit messages, ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper


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