English

Alternative forms

• snicker

Noun

snigger ‎(plural sniggers)

1. A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 255,

     Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.

2. A sly or snide laugh.

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Verb

snigger ‎(third-person singular simple present sniggers, present participle sniggering, simple past and past participle sniggered)

1. (intransitive) To emit a snigger.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 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.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in The Cuckoo in the Nest:

     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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Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:laugh

Anagrams

• gingers, niggers