Etymograph

English

snickle

Variant of sniggle.

Formed from sneck + le

Middle English snek

English sneck

French le ‘the’

English le

Today it means

noun Suppressed or sly laughter; snigger.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “snickle”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / snickle