Cackle vs Snigger - What's the difference?
cackle | snigger |
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
* Shakespeare
To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
* 1908 , , page 255,
A sly or snide laugh.
To emit a snigger.
* 1908 , , page 22,
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=
, title=The Cuckoo in the Nest
, chapter=1
Snigger is a synonym of cackle.
In intransitive terms the difference between cackle and snigger
is that cackle is to talk in a silly manner; to prattle while snigger is to emit a snigger.cackle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- When every goose is cackling .
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* clucksnigger
English
Alternative forms
* snickerNoun
(en noun)- Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger , and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.
Verb
(en verb)- presently the Mole's spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance.
citation, passage=Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.}}