snicker

Plural: snickers

Noun

a disrespectful laugh
A stifled or broken laugh.
A player who snicks the ball.

Verb

Verb Forms: snickered, snickering, snickers

To laugh in a half-suppressed, often disrespectful way.
laugh quietly
To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.
To utter through a laugh of this kind.
To whinny.

Examples

He couldn’t help but SNICKER when I played the ridiculous word ’ZA’ in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

US variant of the British snigger, possibly of onomatopoeic origin, similar to Dutch snikken (“to gasp; sob”). The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. Compare also Scottish smicker (“to smile or laugh in a sniggering or leery way, smirk”). More at smicker.

Synonyms

snigger, snort

Scrabble Score: 13

snicker: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
snicker: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
snicker: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

snicker: valid Words With Friends Word