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Snigger vs Chips - What's the difference?

snigger | chips |

As nouns the difference between snigger and chips

is that snigger is a partly suppressed or broken laugh while chips is (thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags).

As a verb snigger

is to emit a snigger.

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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    chips

    English

    Noun

    (head)
    • Wow, look at the chips on that motherboard!
  • (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) french fried potatoes; french fries.
  • (US, Canada, South Africa) Thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags; potato chips, nacho chips, etc.
    • What kind of chips should we get, barbecue or sour cream and onion?

    Derived terms

    * cheap as chips * when the chips are down