(v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
(n.) A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
(3) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(4) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
(5) I remember standing by the side of the stage, thinking, "I'm about to follow the Spice Girls" and giggling to myself.
(6) He keeps trying to leave the interview and is giggling as he's pulled back.
(7) "He [Meyer] sat here giggling about his [Mosley's] shaved buttocks," said Davies.
(8) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
(9) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(10) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(11) But then the cost of armed guards to accompany them isn't cheap," Aken'ova sighs, before telling the two giggling women the price for bottles of massage oil.
(12) His lordship is desperate to avoid joining them, but as the weeks pass his occasional giggles at the absurd scale of his task begin to seem faintly hysterical.
(13) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
(14) Their encounter is a graphic and uninhibited coupling, but intimate and communicative, with the odd giggle, and each partner enjoying equal pleasure and control.
(15) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
(16) And with that, they both collapse into giggles, like a couple who already figured that out long ago.
(17) Bouchard, one of the rising stars of women’s tennis, had just won a match on Margaret Court Arena and complied, smiled and giggled – but looked as if she were taking part in someone else’s joke.
(18) It was as much as I could do to stop myself giggling as the bemused caller lost his thread and started fumbling for words.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) They order room service while giggling in their dressing gowns.
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.