Neigh vs Snigger - What's the difference?

neigh | snigger |

As nouns the difference between neigh and snigger

is that neigh is the cry of a horse while snigger is a partly suppressed or broken laugh.

As verbs the difference between neigh and snigger

is that neigh is (of a horse) to make its cry while snigger is to emit a snigger.

neigh

English

Noun

(en noun)

The cry of a horse.

Verb

(en verb)

(of a horse) to make its cry

to make a sound similar to a horses' cry

This fake laughter sounds like a horse neighing .

(obsolete) To scoff or sneer.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

neighed at his nakedness

Anagrams

* English words not following the I before E except after C rule

snigger

English

Alternative forms

* snicker

Noun

(en noun)

A partly suppressed or broken laugh.

* 1908 , , page 255,

Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger , and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.

A sly or snide laugh.

Verb

(en verb)

To emit a snigger.

* 1908 , , page 22,

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.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=

, title=The Cuckoo in the Nest , chapter=1 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.}}

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