(n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
(v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
(2) Half-time Half-time analysis: It's like an end-of-season game in Italy," chuckles James Richardson, as he brings me my coffee ... because he knows his place.
(3) Then you’ll have two boats with the same name, and two with no name.” He chuckles.
(4) "I remember when I heard last year that Yorkshire was bidding to host the Tour and I must admit I chuckled.
(5) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
(6) "This is where the gap between my theoretical desire and practical politics comes in," he chuckles.
(7) Today he can afford to chuckle, in a financial sense as well as an emotional one.
(8) Mumford gives a small chuckle, and concedes I might have a point.
(9) The biggest problem is there aren’t any people,” he said with a chuckle.
(10) I'd have to say a lion because he's bigger [little chuckle].
(11) Royles also had to endure more or less the entire committee laughing at him openly when he boasted about consultants' high levels of job satisfaction, something the chuckling Mps surmised might be caused by their stellar pay.
(12) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
(13) She chuckled about that at a dinner last week with Arthur Sulzberger – the Times's publisher, who gave her the editor's job.
(14) One summer day in 1994, my best friend Steve – a gentle, jovial guy with the most disarming chuckle – called and asked me to meet him for lunch.
(15) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(16) Then he chuckles into the phone from his office in New York, where he now works.
(17) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
(18) [Chuckling] No, we didn't have some barbaric practices in the NBA.
(19) Sandwiched between the adverts, the programmes were comprised of laugh track chuckles and a life lesson for the kids, one per episode.
(20) Elsewhere, the corpses are swapped for tragedy and the Muttley chuckles turn to whimpers.
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.