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snicker

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1. snicker - Noun

2. snicker - Verb

Meaning

To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

A half suppressed, broken laugh.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker. Walter M. Miller, Jr.

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record. James Patterson

In each human being there is an emergency exit: that is, the cult of self under a multitude of manifestations, which means that when an obsession becomes too violent, you can escape, vanish with a snicker. Violet Trefusis

Every time I see a mirror I'm amazed. I end up wondering who's taken over the outside of me. A disgusting old goat, from the look of him. The kind I used to snicker at when I was twenty. He scares me, Stance. He looks like a dying man. I'm trapped inside him, and I'm not ready to go. Glen Cook

Shaw... has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it. Lisa Kleypas

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else. Paul Stanley

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