Snigger vs Guffaw - What's the difference?
snigger | guffaw |
A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
* 1908 , , page 255,
A sly or snide laugh.
To emit a snigger.
* 1908 , , page 22,
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, title=The Cuckoo in the Nest
, chapter=1 A boisterous laugh
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* 1906 , , ch. xx,
* 1936 , , ch. 15,
To laugh boisterously.
* 1891 , , ch. 15,
* 1900 , ,
Guffaw is a synonym of snigger.
In intransitive terms the difference between snigger and guffaw
is that snigger is to emit a snigger while guffaw is to laugh boisterously.snigger
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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
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*guffaw
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Noun
(en noun)- On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
- He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.
- He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.
Synonyms
* (boisterous laugh) belly laughVerb
(en verb)- He guffawed at his adversaries.
- Peter, on the contrary, threw back his head and guffawed thunderously.
