What's the difference between chortle and snicker?

Chortle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
  • (2) "One-nil to the champions" chortled the 2,100 Cardiff fans.
  • (3) At first, all seemed fine, as we chortled happily away over how she only came up with the idea for the buses seconds before she announced them on air when she was being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and how surprised she was that it wasn't only twentysomethings from New York who turned up, but people of all ages from all states.
  • (4) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
  • (5) Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf.
  • (6) "If I were Kim Jong-il I would unify the People's Republic of Korea with the old Peoples Republic of East Germany and make everyone wear Supreme Liederhosen," chortles Bem Bamford.
  • (7) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
  • (8) "They're a bit daft up north, that's why," chortles Gary Neville.
  • (9) A seemingly endless capacity to out-chortle Bugs Bunny.
  • (10) closer to realisation after John Cleese told comedy website Chortle that he has struck a deal with MGM, the studio that holds the rights to the film.
  • (11) My father at 93 is bedbound and in a nursing home but I have heard him talking and chortling to himself – his sense of humour still somewhere there with the memory loss and confusion of dementia.
  • (12) The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of critics, with users of Chortle , a comedy website, voting for the winners.
  • (13) 2.42pm BST Time to chortle away at the latest in our series of brick-by-brick videos.
  • (14) Despite what the mainstream media told us, black women never stopped aspiring to possess the curves society so hated; we chortled in cinemas at Queen Latifah’s glee from a yes response to the age-old question “Does my butt look big in this?” in the 2005 comedy Beauty Shop.
  • (15) Seeing his life’s toil all laid out on one floor amounts to an “existential crisis”, he chortles, only half tongue-in-cheek.
  • (16) A Guardian and an Observer columnist have each won prizes in the Chortle comedy awards.
  • (17) If I don’t commit suicide, then otherwise my body is very healthy,” he told Indian television with a characteristic chortle.
  • (18) The Chortle comedy awards have courted controversy by shortlisting only two solo female comics, out of a total of 54 nominations.
  • (19) House of Cards, which we all love, is more of a melodrama,” Turnbull says, chortling for the first time in an interview with Guardian Australia.
  • (20) Photograph: Tom Jenkins “Although I’m a little hoarse today as I was cheering so much last night at the football!” chortles the ol’ (slightly husky) smoothy.

Snicker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
  • (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
  • (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (2) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (3) Snickers featuring Willem Dafoe Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nothing makes me want to grab a candy bar more than the nightmare image of Willem Dafoe dressed like Marilyn Monroe.
  • (4) However, the ASA did not receive complaints about their Snickers-related tweets.
  • (5) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
  • (6) The Snickers campaign also included celebrities such as Sir Ian Botham and former X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd.
  • (7) And when that happens, some of the iPhone users who snicker today at phablets will be trumpeting the virtues of Apple's latest products, and they'll be exclaiming how innovative it all is.
  • (8) They inherited the maker of Mars and Snickers bars in 1999 when their father died.
  • (9) The final tweet, which was accompanied by a photo of the celebrities holding a snickers bar, used the strapline "you're not you when you're hungry" and the #spon suffix, short for "sponsored" tweet.
  • (10) Opal Fruits became Starburst, Marathon became Snickers, and Treets became M&Ms.
  • (11) The campaign by Snickers paid Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand to tweet about the chocolate bar.
  • (12) I was so happy, I handed out all the sweets from my bag; the guards were eating Snickers and Bounty bars.
  • (13) I stood by fighting tears while three officers looked over the auction printouts I brought and snickered.
  • (14) Too often attempts at such serious study is met with a snicker and little or no funding is forthcoming.
  • (15) The English-language Buenos Aires Herald, however, pointed out that "the snickering about the President's mental health comes at a time [when] she is perceived by much of the public, including those who oppose her, as having shown tremendous strength immediately after her husband's death."
  • (16) The downside is that I have feet like an owl's talons and so I spend the whole 30 minutes of the treatment suspecting that the poor person who is forced to paint my toes is snickering with her colleagues in code about my talons.
  • (17) Hence the household cleaning product Jif became Cif and Marathon chocolate bars became Snickers in the UK.
  • (18) The men in the commentary box snickered, calling the cricketer “amorous” and describing the journalist as scurrying off “with bright red cheeks” .
  • (19) It also mentioned @snickersUK , the official Snickers Twitter account.
  • (20) The Advertising Standards Authority , which dealt with its first Twitter investigation in March over a Snickers campaign using Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand, received a complaint that it was not clear the footballers' tweets were advertising.