snigger
IPA: snˈɪgɝ
noun
- A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
- A sly or snide laugh.
verb
- (intransitive) To emit a snigger.
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Examples of "snigger" in Sentences
- The Bloomsbury highbrow, with his mechanical snigger, is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel.
- If you ask for miel, you’ll certainly be understood, but you might get a snigger from the shopkeeper.
- Christine made a sound that I would have called snigger if it had issued from someone less patrician.
- When he tells people what he does for a living, they snigger, which is perhaps preferable to the scowl he got in the last years of working at Goldman: Banking used to be sexy.
- And for the record, Mickey Kaus didn't "snigger" - for being unaware of the situation, he registered his surprise in a very calm fashion, especially in light of how Bob Wright was hamming it up.
- So, eight beautiful girls on a hen night, two men with funny hats, a uni-cyclist (???) and three lads dressed as penguins all walk past without even a comment or a snigger from the F Division Public Order team.
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