: an act or sound of snickering
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Verb
he snickered at the puzzled look on her face
Noun
a snicker of derision when we heard their offer on the house
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Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
His fans gave him an obliging laugh; a father and son sitting beside me snickered loudly enough to be captured on camera.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Greg Marotta, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
There are private snickers about the offense’s lack of imagination, the team’s absence of leadership and the dearth of talent.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Verb
And when Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp, her team 1-6 in 2022, walked out unscheduled to address a bunch of reporters and tell everyone to back the hell off, people snickered.
—Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
His fans gave him an obliging laugh; a father and son sitting beside me snickered loudly enough to be captured on camera.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
So he must be placed in the Apparition section, next to ghosts like John Barron, sharing a snicker with Ivana.
—Greg Marotta, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
There are private snickers about the offense’s lack of imagination, the team’s absence of leadership and the dearth of talent.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Snicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snicker. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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