You can generally use the verbs snigger and snicker interchangeably. They both mean "to snort with partially suppressed laughter," and both imply a sense of superiority or scorn. You're most likely to snigger at someone when they're being ridiculous or foolish.
verb. laugh quietly or with restraint. synonyms: chortle, chuckle.
If you stifle a yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn. Synonyms: restrain, suppress, repress, smother More Synonyms of stifle.
A muffled sound is quiet or muted. You might hear the muffled sound of your neighbors laughing through the wall of your apartment. If you don't want your brother to hear you cry after you finish a sad book, you might put your covers over your head, so all he'll hear is muffled sobs.
a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter. to laugh loudly and boisterously.
These include giggle, titter, snicker, and a word that is a cross between chuckle and snort — chortle. These words are all imitative.
A breathy laugh can be referred to as a "giggle." It typically sounds light and high-pitched, and may be used to indicat.
/ˈkækəl/ To cackle is to laugh in a loud, harsh way.
literarya brittle laugh or smile does not show real humour or happiness.
synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoffing. type of: derision. contemptuous laughter.
A smirk is a kind of smile, but it's not a friendly smile—it's often a sarcastic or arrogant one or one that's intended to provoke or irritate the person who sees it. Smirk is also a verb that means to smile in such a way.
To laugh softly in a low tone, as in mild amusement.
Wet humor stages the sentiment of laughter through tears, unlike much of the urbane, dusty political comics and polemics of the past.
cachinnate \KAK-uh-nayt\ verb. : to laugh loudly or immoderately.
1 to laugh softly or to oneself.
to chatter; jabber.
Giggle. A giggle is “a silly spasmodic laugh, especially with short, repeated gasps and titters, as from juvenile or ill-concealed amusement or nervous embarrassment.” The word is thought to be imitative in origin, echoing the sound of such laughter.
A “giggle” (noun) is a silly laugh, usually quite light. and repetitive - for example, I always giggle when. someone tells me a rude joke… it's like, hehehe ?✨ A “chuckle” (noun) is a repressed, quiet laugh - so.
(literary) (especially of a voice) having a pleasant musical sound. She gave a silvery laugh.
1. Giggling is silly laughing, chuckling is good-natured soft laughter, snickering and sniggering are mean-spirited. Tittering is nervous laughter.
Humans have many laughs in our repertoire — influenced by our moods and social experiences. “We all have a range of different laughs that we use for different purposes and circumstances,” Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible and body language and behavior expert, told Mashable.
Synonyms: control, suppress, hold back, bottle up More Synonyms of repress. 2. verb. If you repress a smile, sigh, or moan, you try hard not to smile, sigh, or moan. He repressed a smile. [
used by someone who is taking a photograph of a person and wants the subject to smile, since saying the word "cheese" in an exaggerated way, makes a person look like he or she is smiling.
A rictus is a frozen, fake smile. If the star of a play finds herself overcome by stage fright, she might forget her lines and stand, trembling, her mouth twisted into a rictus. The word rictus most often describes a smile that doesn't convey delight or happiness — instead, it's a kind of horrified, involuntary grin.