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Simper vs Snigger - What's the difference?

simper | snigger |

In lang=en terms the difference between simper and snigger

is that simper is to smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner while snigger is to emit a snigger.

As verbs the difference between simper and snigger

is that simper is to smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner while snigger is to emit a snigger.

As nouns the difference between simper and snigger

is that simper is a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk while snigger is a partly suppressed or broken laugh.

simper

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.
  • * 1892 , , The American Claimant , ch. 21:
    • Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!
  • * 1915 , , The Voice In The Fog , ch. 24:
    • How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
  • (obsolete) To glimmer; to twinkle.
  • * Herbert
    • Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.
  • * 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2, "St. Edmundsbury":
    • Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, with that placid dilettante simper , the Heaven's—Watchtower of our Fathers, the fallen God's—Houses, the Golgotha of true Souls departed!
  • * 1972 , , The Levanter (2009 edition), ISBN 9780755117635, p. 158:
    • He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper .

    See also

    * smirk * shit-eating grin

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    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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