To laugh slily, wantonly, or contemptuously; to laugh in one's sleeve.--Johnson.
Then I heard the gals snickering and laughing in the next room, and I began to see how it was.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 18.
Ha, ha, ha! snickered out the woman, more afraid of paper money than the doctor's knife.--Margaret, p. 273.
Never mind, says the General, if you can't get them 'are pantaloons mended, the State'll give you a new pair. And then we all snorted and snickered.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 15.
A hyst is bad enough, without being snickered at.--Neal's Sketches.