Meaning & use
snickers
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Laughs quietly and slyly, often at someone else's expense.
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He snickers behind his hand whenever the teacher mispronounces a word.
She snickers at his jokes even when she pretends not to find them funny.
A note on using this word
As a verb, "snickers" is the third-person singular form of "snicker," meaning to laugh in a half-suppressed, often mocking way; it is unrelated to the candy bar brand of the same name.
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