different between cackled vs snicker

English

Verb

cackled

1. simple past tense and past participle of cackle

Anagrams

• clacked

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sn?k.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sn?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Etymology 1

US variant of the British snigger, possibly of imitative origin, similar to Dutch snikken (“to gasp; sob”). The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. Compare also Scottish smicker (“to smile or laugh in a sniggering or leery way, smirk”). More at smicker.

Alternative forms

• snigger

Noun

snicker (plural snickers)

1. A stifled or broken laugh.

Translations

Verb

snicker (third-person singular simple present snickers, present participle snickering, simple past and past participle snickered)

1. (intransitive) To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.
2. (transitive) To utter through a laugh of this kind.
3. (of a horse) To whinny.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:laugh

Translations

Etymology 2

snick +? -er

Noun

snicker (plural snickers)

1. (cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.

Anagrams

• Kincers, Renicks, Resnick, nickers