Rolesets - snicker

snicker

snicker.01 - laugh in a covert manner

SNICKER-V NOTES: Based on sentences in brown corpus. Framed by Neville. Comparison with 'laugh.' VerbNet class nonverbal_expression-40.2. (from snicker.01-v)

Aliases:

snicker (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: snickerer
ARG1-PPT: cognate object
ARG2-CAU: source of amusement
ARG3-PRD: end state of Arg0, result of snickering

intransitive (-)

It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by
visiting whitesARG0
whoR-ARG0
snickeredrel
behind handkerchiefARGM-LOC
and afterward discussed Negro religion .

with source (-)

L'Unita and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short 's elevation , l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it ,
Times of IndiaARG0
snickeredrel
at itARG2
, and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it -- the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant .