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snickered

snickered is the simple past and past participle of snicker.

Meaning of snicker

Verb

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.
    • I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.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
  2. (transitive) To utter through a laugh of this kind.
  3. To whinny.

See all 5 meanings of snicker

Questions about snickered

What is snickered the simple past and past participle of?
Snickered is the simple past and past participle of snicker.

Words near snickered in the dictionary

  1. snicker licker
  2. snicker lickers
  3. snicker-snack
  4. snickerdoodle
  5. snickerdoodles
  6. snickered
  7. snickerer
  8. snickerers
  9. snickering
  10. snickeringly
  11. snickerings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snickered (page history and authors); snicker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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