(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.
Whinny
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
(n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.
(a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
(2) Bird's character, the sane one, is plopped into the middle of this queer ensemble to whinny and writhe.
(3) So stop pretending to be all excited about them now, you whinnying berk.
(4) When confronted by their mirror images, two animals increased their number of vocalizations, which included "whinny" sounds, barks, buzzing, and varying patterns of click trains.
(5) He had little to offer to the fast-maturing sound film, but he bawled and whinnied for a while over the equally adolescent radio networks.