Meaning

4 senses

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

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

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

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

Origin

Variant of sniggle. Unknown. Perhaps from sneck (“a latch; catch”) + -le (diminutive suff

Variant of sniggle.

Unknown. Perhaps from sneck (“a latch; catch”) + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare snack (“to snap; click”), snatch.

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Forms

snickles, snickling, snickled, snickled
Base formsnickle · to snickle
3rd person singularsnickles
Present participlesnickling
Past simplesnickled
Past participlesnickled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysnickle
he, she, itsnickles

Past simpleLesson

all personssnickled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave snickled
he, she, ithas snickled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill snickle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sneezeB2snickersnidesniffB2
snickle — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto