snigger in English

verb
1
give a smothered or half-suppressed laugh.
the boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back
noun
1
a smothered or half-suppressed laugh.
This version is puerile, including jokes that could hardly have raised a snigger when first heard and turns of speech abandoned for over a generation.

Use "snigger" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "snigger" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "snigger", or refer to the context using the word "snigger" in the English Dictionary.

1. Your vassals are starting to snigger behind your back.

2. While we snigger, referring to the side of her.

3. " All right, " said Jones with a stare and a snigger.

4. The tourists snigger at the locals' outdated ways and dress.

5. "She has always wanted to visit the French Ministry, " he added with a snigger.

6. Synonyms for Cachinnation include giggle, laugh, snigger, snicker, titter, chuckle, chortle, cackle, laughter and guffaw

7. There are always plenty of people ready to snigger when we take the first wobbly steps.

8. We know what it's like to have them grovel to our faces and snigger behind our backs.

9. 12 I also couldn't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games.

10. I also couldn't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games.

11. The cane came down heavily twice on my fingers. This time there was no snigger from the class. It hurt!

12. We were having a snigger at the bride who was rather large and dressed in a tight pale pink dress.

13. They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.

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15. 'We are talking about the sine qua non of our existence, ' she says. 'Sex – snigger as we will – is the overlooked category of health and wellbeing.

16. For Scott it was something else to snigger at: a promotion, in an armed force without ships or soldiers, defenders and liberators of a world that wanted little part of them even now.

17. 1912, Ambrose Bierce, “For Brevity and Clarity”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 11, pages 386–387: While reforming the language I crave leave to introduce an improvement of punctuation—the snigger point, or note of Cachinnation