snickling

Verb (1)

snickle (third-person singular simple present snickles, present participle snickling, simple past and past participle snickled)

1. (dialectal, intransitive) To laugh at someone or something
   • "many's de time w'at I sees um laughin' en laughin', w'en I lay dey ain't kin tell w'at dey er laughin' at deyse'f. En 'tain't der laughin' w'at pesters me, nudder" — relenting a little — "hit's dish yer ev'lastin' snickle en giggle, giggle en snickle."1881, Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Benjamin Ram and His Wonderful Fiddle

Verb (2)

snickle (third-person singular simple present snickles, present participle snickling, simple past and past participle snickled)

1. (dialectal, transitive) To snare using a snickle.
   • Whether Miriam was duly instructed on the subject of the per-centage usually required upon perisable subjects of commerce, or whether she though it right that the squire should be charged moderately for the carp taken from his own ponds, the pigeons furnished by his own dove-cote, the hares...1836, Samuel Carter Hall, Amulet, Or, Christian and Literary Remembrancer, page 126
2. (dialectal, transitive) To tie up or hang (something) using a rope around the neck.
   • Well, well," said the governor, " mind what I say ; I stay in town just six weeks ; and if I don't see you both fairly snickled before I go, I'll never forgive either of you.1828, Charles Jenner, The Placid Man, Or, Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville, page 240
3. (dialectal, transitive) To use (a rope) to tie or hang by the neck.
   • I jumped out with a piece of thin chain, which I snickled round her neck, and pulled her aboard.1980, Sybil Marshall, Fenland Chronicle: Recollections of William Henry and Kate Mary Edwards collected and edited by their daughter, →ISBN, page 62

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