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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



... "—r-t-h." The hand-raising was now repeated with more hubbub and excitement than at first. Those who before had not moved a finger were now waving their hands above their heads. "Red Head" felt that he was lost. He looked very big and foolish, and some of the scholars began to snicker. His helpless condition went straight to my heart, and gripped my sympathies. I felt that if he failed, it would in some way be my failure. I raised my hand, and, under cover of the excitement and the teacher's attempts to regain order, I hurriedly shot up into his ...
— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson
... that Lizzie Graham—"poor as Job's turkey!"—was going to marry Nathaniel May spread like grass fire through Jonesville. Mrs. Butterfield preserved a cold silence, for her distress was great. To hear people snicker and say that Lizzie Graham must be "dyin' anxious to get married"; that she must be "lottin' considerable on a good ghost-market"; that she "took a new way o' gettin' a hired man without payin' no wages,"—these things stung her sore heart into actual anger at the friend ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... certain vein of waggery, for at the moment Jack was over the middle of the stream, one of them stooped, and, grasping the head of the trunk, moved it quickly fully a couple of feet to the right, all three bursting into an audible snicker at the same moment. The lad was looking downward, meanwhile stepping carefully, when he glanced across to learn the meaning of the action, the stooping Indian being ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... An audible snicker ran through the delighted staff. Cameron seized his ledger and the pile of freight bills, and started for Mr. Bates' desk, catching out of the corner of his eye the pantomime of Jimmy and the lanky one, which was being rendered with vigor and ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor
... 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


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