Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A snicker.
- intransitive verb To snicker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variant of
snicker . - See the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb See
snicker . - noun See
snicker .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A partly suppressed or broken
laugh . - noun A
sly orsnide laugh. - verb intransitive To
emit a snigger.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disrespectful laugh
- verb laugh quietly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So, eight beautiful girls on a hen night, two men with funny hats, a uni-cyclist (???) and three lads dressed as penguins all walk past without even a comment or a snigger from the F Division Public Order team.
Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The Bloomsbury highbrow, with his mechanical snigger, is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel.
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And for the record, Mickey Kaus didn't "snigger" - for being unaware of the situation, he registered his surprise in a very calm fashion, especially in light of how Bob Wright was hamming it up.
An article in the New York Times: "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version." Ann Althouse 2009
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If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
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If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
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If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
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If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
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If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
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Christine made a sound that I would have called snigger if it had issued from someone less patrician.
Dead As A Doornail Harris, Charlaine 2005
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When he tells people what he does for a living, they snigger, which is perhaps preferable to the scowl he got in the last years of working at Goldman: Banking used to be sexy.
Evening Standard - Home Rosamund Urwin 2011
slumry commented on the word snigger
snicker
July 26, 2007
uselessness commented on the word snigger
It's a funny word but I hate to type it lest someone skip over the first letter somehow when they're reading it.
July 27, 2007
slumry commented on the word snigger
Then they would need to take a second look, wouldn't they? I remember a perhaps-apocryphal story aout a crusade against the word niggardly. There is enough genuinely racist speech to object to; we don't need to imagine it where it does not exist.
July 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word snigger
Slumry, if it's the news I'm thinking of, it wasn't apocryphal. Such a fuss over a word that merely sounded offensive....
July 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word snigger
I most certainly agree. We're a bunch of softies, we are.
July 27, 2007