Snigger vs Snorkel - What's the difference?
snigger | snorkel |
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 hollow tube, held in the mouth, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth.
To use a snorkel.
As nouns the difference between snigger and snorkel
is that snigger is a partly suppressed or broken laugh while snorkel is a hollow tube, held in the mouth, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.As verbs the difference between snigger and snorkel
is that snigger is to emit a snigger while snorkel is to use a snorkel.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.}}
