snicker

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪk.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

US variant of the British snigger, possibly of onomatopoeic origin, similar to Dutch snikken (“to gasp; sob”). The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. Compare also Scottish smicker (“to smile or laugh in a sniggering or leery way, smirk”). More at smicker.

• snigger

snicker (plural snickers)

1. A stifled or broken laugh.

snicker (third-person singular simple present snickers, present participle snickering, simple past and past participle snickered)

1. (intransitive) To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.
   • 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:

     I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.

2. (transitive) To utter through a laugh of this kind.
4. (of a horse) To whinny.

• See also Thesaurus:laugh

From snick +‎ -er.

snicker (plural snickers)

1. (cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.

• snicker-snack

• Kincers, Renicks, Resnick, nickers