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Snigger vs Ridiculed - What's the difference?

snigger | ridiculed |

As verbs the difference between snigger and ridiculed

is that snigger is to emit a snigger while ridiculed is (ridicule).

As a noun snigger

is a partly suppressed or broken laugh.

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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    ridiculed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ridicule)

  • ridicule

    English

    Verb

    (ridicul)
  • to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
  • His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
  • An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
  • * Buckle
  • [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
  • * Foxe
  • To the people but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule .
  • The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
  • * Addison
  • to see the ridicule of this practice

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    See also

    * humiliation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) ridiculous
  • This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.
    (Webster 1913)