What is "sniggering"

Usage examples of "sniggering".

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.

Upon this occasion the whisperings and sniggerings were more apparent than ever the worthy beadle could remember.

They sit on the sofa together and converse discreetly, because they are aware from various scrapings and sniggerings that Caroline and Minerva have pulled a chair up outside the door of the parlour, and are peeking at them through the transom.