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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



... age and I can imagine that I hear somebody snicker when I confess the fondness I had for the Sunday-school. I don't want any one to think I am laying claim to the record of having always been a good little boy; nor that everything I did was wise. No; I confess I did my share of deviltry, that some of my deeds were foolish, and ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis

... leisurely, making during the first four days only about twenty-five miles, to a village bearing the serious (?) name of Snickersville. Here we had the first evidence of the presence of the enemy. We were hurried through this village and up through the gap in the mountain called "Snicker's Gap" to head off the rebels. We soon came on to their scouts and pickets, who fled precipitately without firing a gun. Part of our division halted on the top of the gap, while a couple of regiments skirmished through the woods both sides of the road down to the foot of the mountain on the other ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

... asked him how he had enjoyed the day. He mumbled some reply, he never knew what, hearing only the dreadful snicker that ran the table. He refused the dessert and left the table. It had ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... wife is home,' said the man. So the friend rang the bell, and the next instant the door opened, and he got a broom over his head. 'Is she in?' asked the man on the sidewalk. 'Sure she is,' answered his friend. 'Go right in and you'll get a warm welcome!'" And at this story there was a general snicker. ...
— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer

... the stranger who broke the silence: "Two bits I bid—two bits," he said, very quietly, whereat the crowd indulged in a faint snicker and ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford


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