Definition of "snickle"
snickle1
noun
plural snickles
(dialect) Suppressed or sly laughter; snigger.
Quotations
verb
third-person singular simple present snickles, present participle snickling, simple past and past participle snickled
(intransitive, dialect) To laugh at someone or something
Quotations
"many's de time w'at I sees um laughin' en laughin', w'en I lay dey ain't kin tell w'at dey er laughin' at deyse'f. En 'tain't der laughin' w'at pesters me, nudder" — relenting a little — "hit's dish yer ev'lastin' snickle en giggle, giggle en snickle."
1881, Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Benjamin Ram and His Wonderful Fiddle
snickle2
noun
plural snickles
verb
third-person singular simple present snickles, present participle snickling, simple past and past participle snickled
(transitive, dialect) To snare using a snickle.
Quotations
Whether Miriam was duly instructed on the subject of the per-centage usually required upon perisable subjects of commerce, or whether she though it right that the squire should be charged moderately for the carp taken from his own ponds, the pigeons furnished by his own dove-cote, the hares snickled in his own meadows, we know not — it is only certain, she was industrious in procuring immediately the dainties required, and moderate in the price she demanded.
1836, Samuel Carter Hall, Amulet, Or, Christian and Literary Remembrancer, page 126
Dick had so long careered it over the farmer's fields, by day and by night, and had so often "snickled," or noosed the hares, as one may say, under the farmer's nose, and the farmer had all the while taken it so mildly, that the poacher was never more surprised in his life than at this portentous assault upon his person by mild, goo-natured Kiah Dobson.
1845, Thomas Cooper, Wise Saws and Modern Instances - Volume 1, page 24