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snicker

/snik-er/US // ˈsnɪk ər //UK // (ˈsnɪkə) //

窃笑,冷笑话,嗤之以鼻,冷笑

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter with a snicker.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a snickering laugh.

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Examples

  • The attitude of the local colleagues at first puzzled us, and then made us snicker in a superior way.

  • Brace yourself, friends, for the new hate-and-snicker-fest on the right about the Obamacare numbers.

  • Each time I tried to begin a story, each time I said the word “gay” or “lesbian” or “transgender,” the gendarmes began to snicker.

  • He offered little evidence to that, and his testimony was reported to have made some of the jurors snicker.

  • “It sounds horrible,” Hef says on the phone from the Mansion in Los Angeles, punctuating his sarcasm with a snicker.

  • Enslee began to snicker again, taking some support in his shame from another man's disgrace.

  • Jest tell her there's more Smithses wanted an' she'll leave the Greenses 'thout a snicker.'

  • A gratified snore from Dee and Miss Cox with a little snicker went to her room.

  • The snicker grew to a laugh—a laugh with a thread of grim menace in it, and a tinge of mounting man-hysteria.

  • You see, I'm goin' to croak 'fore long—oh, you don't need to snicker; 't's a fact.