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plural sniggers
A partly suppressed or broken laugh. quotations examples
Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 255
A sly or snide laugh. examples
third-person singular simple present sniggers, present participle sniggering, simple past and past participle sniggered
(intransitive) To emit a snigger. quotations examples
[…] 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.
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 22
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.
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in The Cuckoo in the Nest