Snigger vs Sniggeringly - What's the difference?
snigger | sniggeringly |
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 With sniggers; with sardonic laughter.
* 1941 , Hallett Abend, Japan Unmasked
As a noun snigger
is a partly suppressed or broken laugh.As a verb snigger
is to emit a snigger.As an adverb sniggeringly is
with sniggers; with sardonic laughter.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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*sniggeringly
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Adverb
(en adverb)- Chinese teachers would then sniggeringly explain to their young pupils...