American EnglishAmELAUGH to laugh quietly and in a way that is not nice at something which is not supposed to be funny 暗笑,窃笑SYN British English snigger
snicker at
The other students snickered at Steve.
其他学生都偷偷地笑史蒂夫。
—snicker noun [countableC]
a barely hidden snicker
几乎不加掩饰的窃笑
Examples from the Corpus
snicker• One of the other caddies snickered.• Over the shouts of the soldiers, we filed out, snickering.• Everyone around Tonysnickered, and Miss McFawn looked at him.• Then he snickered and walked away.• Most of the boys and girls snicker at the topic.• Lufkin looked pleased at the snickeringaudience.• He knew they snickered behind his back, but he believed that they would eventually accept him as one of their own.