snickle

noun

1. (dialectal)Suppressed or sly laughter; snigger.

   “I undress while listening to the snickles on the other end.”

   “The teacher heard laughter and snickles in his area so she went to check what was going on.”

   “And she dissolved into another round of sniggers and snickles.”

2. (dialectal)A noose or snare made using a slip knot.

   “I carried the broth that poisoned the nuns, and he and I, snickle hand too fast, strangled a friar.”

   “The whole line of route abounds in gins, traps, snickles, and nets, for the money of Messieurs les Voyageurs in general, and that of Milor Anglais in particular.”

   “Every urchin in the village of Haxey had been blamed, at one time or other, for the base machination of setting "snickles," or nooses of wire, in the tailor's little garden.”

   “Young Tommy, and young Plug are excused supplying snickles, because they know naff all about them, We will show them how to make one tomorrow, but I propose they bring double bread ration.”

   “Leslie himself would set 'snickles' (snares) for rabbits near the ICI explosives plant, and believes that his snaring territory would have extended onto the eastern fringe of Manor Farm.”

verb

1. (dialectal, intransitive)To laugh at someone or something

   “"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."”

   “I put the phone down and snickled.”

   ““There's whooooo?” Bobby snickles.”

   “He snickled and told me, that he'll make that just for bringing me in.”

2. (dialectal, transitive)To snare using a snickle.

   “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.”

   “"Then where the devil can she have hidden herself?" replied the other, hutching up the two hares on his shoulder as he spoke, and which had but just been 'snickled.'”

   “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.”

   “There's Dick at war a champion wi t'ploo, Ti set a rig an furrow straight an true, An Ben at snickled monny a fine fat hare, E'll niwer trouble t'keepers onny mair! Arry, that oor Sarah used to cooart.”

3. (dialectal, transitive)To tie up or hang (something) using a rope around the neck.

   “Well, well," said the governor, " mind what I say ; I stay in town just six weeks ; and if I don't see you both fairly snickled before I go, I'll never forgive either of you.”

   “He's snickled by futility.”

4. (dialectal, transitive)To use (a rope) to tie or hang by the neck.

   “I jumped out with a piece of thin chain, which I snickled round her neck, and pulled her aboard.”