Snigger vs Grin - What's the difference?
snigger | grin |
A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
* 1908 , , page 255,
A sly or snide laugh.
To emit a snigger.
* 1908 , , page 22,
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=
, title=The Cuckoo in the Nest
, chapter=1 A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
* 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, Simon & Schuster, pages 364:
(lb) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 (lb) To express by grinning.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.
*
*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins ," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The pangs of death do make him grin .
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
In intransitive terms the difference between snigger and grin
is that snigger is to emit a snigger while grin is to smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.snigger
English
Alternative forms
* snickerNoun
(en noun)- Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger , and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
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.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
*grin
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Etymology 1
Before 1000 CE - From (etyl) grinnen, from (etyl) grennian; compare to (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- When the ceremony was finished a wide grin''' broke across his face, and it was that '''grin she saw, relieved and happy all at once.
Verb
(intransitive)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
