Crossword clues for snigger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snicker \Snick"er\, n. A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also snigger.]
Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snickered; p. pr. & vb. n. Snickering.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.]
To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, variant form of snicker (v.). Related: Sniggered; sniggering. As a noun from 1823.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A partly suppressed or broken laugh. 2 A sly or snide laugh. vb. (context intransitive English) To emit a snigger.
WordNet
Usage examples of "snigger".
He paid no attention to Bubby Harvey and Tom Simmons, who were openly sniggering at him.
As he had no means of confuting his nephew, all he could do safely to express his disbelief in him, was to utter petulant remarks on his powerlessness to appear at the dinner-table that day: upon which-- Berry just then trumpeting dinner--Algernon seized one arm of the Dyspepsy, and Richard another, and the laughing couple bore him into the room where dinner was laid, Ripton sniggering in the rear, the really happy man of the party.
Sniggering guilt came over him that the Equinox crew had gone through this torment all alone out here.
No other could wake such detestable groans, With reed and with chaunter - with bag and with drones: All day and ill night he delighted the chiels With sniggering pibrochs and jiggety reels.
He thought of the vulgar stories told by sniggering boys and young men and felt a shrinking in his loins, as though he were already contaminated and his member would shrivel up and rot off.
A man whispered it to his neighbor, sniggering, and they stood there in silent comic communion.
Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry.
He could remember sniggering in the corner when Arin danced in the apron, and wondering how his brother could approach his wife in his own skin afterwards.
Won and sniggered at you in goat language, which is almost all sniggering anyway.
Needless to say all this very misleading information was received by the audience with an attention that I can but call rapt, and in a kind of holy silence which was broken only by a sudden burst of sniggering on the part of Scroope.
I glanced at Ian, who was still sniggering quietly to himself, and observed that while he was slightly less battered than Jamie, he had one forefinger lodged in his nose up to the knuckle.
It seems to me that humankind have in them a creeping, sniggering impulse to do what is wrong.
Eh does this wanky wee dance, which Gally, sittin oan a white beanbag, sniggers at, and Birrell smiles as well.
By the way Barses and Meletios sniggered at each other, he had been meant to hear.
Baz converted a suspicious snort into a careful cough, and met his glare blandly, but then lost it and sniggered.