snicker[verb]Synonyms: laugh, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, hee-haw, sniggle, tehee, titter
Related Idioms: have a case of the snickers
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snick‧er /ˈsnɪkə $ -ər/
verb [intransitive][
Date: 1600-1700;
Origin: From the sound]
American English to laugh quietly and in a way that is not nice at something which is not supposed to be funny
Synonym : snigger British Englishsnicker at
The other students snickered at Steve.—snicker noun [countable]:
a barely hidden snicker [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲