snickle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Suppressed or sly laughter

   Suppressed or sly laughter; snigger.

   • I undress while listening to the snickles on the other end.
   • The teacher heard laughter and snickles in his area so she went to check what was going on.
   • And she dissolved into another round of sniggers and snickles.
2. 2

   To laugh at someone or something

   • I put the phone down and snickled.
   • “There's whooooo?” Bobby snickles.
3. 3

   A noose or snare made using a slip knot.

   • I carried the broth that poisoned the nuns, and he and I, snickle hand too fast, strangled a friar.
   • The whole line of route abounds in gins, traps, snickles, and nets, for the money of Messieurs les Voyageurs in general, and that of Milor Anglais in particular.
   • Every urchin in the village of Haxey had been blamed, at one time or other, for the base machination of setting "snickles," or nooses of wire, in the tailor's little garden.
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   1. 4

      To snare using a snickle.

      • "Then where the devil can she have hidden herself?" replied the other, hutching up the two hares on his shoulder as he spoke, and which had but just been 'snickled.'
   2. 5

      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.
      • He's snickled by futility.
   3. 6

      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.

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