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snigger | sniggeringly |

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

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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    sniggeringly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With sniggers; with sardonic laughter.
  • * 1941 , Hallett Abend, Japan Unmasked
  • Chinese teachers would then sniggeringly explain to their young pupils...