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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To utter a partly stifled laugh: "I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker” ( T.S. Eliot).
  2. n. A snide, slightly stifled laugh.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To laugh in a half-suppressed or foolish manner; giggle.
  2. To say in a giggling manner.
  3. Also snigger.
  4. n. A halfsuppressed laugh; a giggle. Also snigger.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A stifled or broken laugh
  2. v. intransitive To emit a snicker: a stifled or broken laugh.
  3. v. of a horse To whinny.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
  2. v. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
  3. n. A half suppressed, broken laugh.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a disrespectful laugh
  2. v. laugh quietly

Etymologies

  1. US variant of the British snigger, possibly of imitative origin, similar to Du. snikken "to gasp, sob." The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. laugh

hypernyms (4)

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  1. laugh
  1. laughter
  1. express mirth
  1. express joy

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. titter
  2. snigger
  3. guffaw
  4. giggle
  5. caw
  1. smirk
  2. chortle
  3. clunk
  4. cackle
  5. jeer
  1. snort
  2. jeering
  3. wink
  4. cheesecake
  5. rumbling
  1. execration
  2. simper
  3. plop
  4. huff
  5. whoosh
  1. sneer
  2. Pavlova
  3. half-smile
  4. thunk
  5. yelp

rhymes (21)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. bicker
  2. bricker
  3. clicker
  4. dicker
  1. flicker
  2. kicker
  3. knicker
  4. licker
  1. liquor
  2. picker
  3. quicker
  4. ricker
  1. schlicker
  2. sicker
  3. slicker
  4. sticker
  1. thicker
  2. ticker
  3. vicar
  4. whicker
  1. wicker

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. snigger
  1. titter
  1. sniggle
  1. snirtle
  1. trademark
  1. snicker

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  • Louises "Adam laughed: a strange sound like the whickering snicker of a teazle in anger". Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort farm (and I still don't know what whickering means). Feb 15, 2013

  • plethora No, I think WeirdNet's right about this one. I don't think of a snicker as highpitched, to me it the sort of laugh you have at someone else's expense. And it's usually done behind your hand, too. Apr 25, 2008

  • pterodactyl Disrespectful? I don't know about that. To me, a snicker is just a high-pitched chortle (but not so high-pitched as a giggle). Apr 25, 2008

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