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Snigged vs Snigger - What's the difference?

snigged | snigger |

As verbs the difference between snigged and snigger

is that snigged is (snig) while snigger is to emit a snigger.

As a noun snigger is

a partly suppressed or broken laugh.

snigged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snig)

    • snig

    English

    Verb

  • (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
  • (UK, dialect) To sneak.
  • To chop off; to cut.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A small eel.
    • (Webster 1913)

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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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