Laugh vs. Snicker — What's the Difference?

To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.

To utter a partly stifled laugh

To show or feel amusement or good humor

A partly stifled laugh.

To feel or express derision or contempt; mock

A stifled or broken laugh.

To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being

A player who snicks the ball.

To produce sounds resembling laughter

(intransitive) To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.

To affect or influence by laughter

(transitive) To utter through a laugh of this kind.

To say with a laugh

(of a horse) To whinny.

The act of laughing.

To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

The sound of laughing; laughter.

To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

(Informal) Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke

A half suppressed, broken laugh.

Often laughs(Informal) Fun; amusement

A disrespectful laugh

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

Laugh quietly

Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

A fun person.

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.

The sound of laughing

A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing;

A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;

Produce laughter