snigger

English

Alternative forms

• snicker

Etymology

British variant pronunciation and spelling of snicker. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsnɪɡə/, SAMPA: /snIg@/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(r)

Noun

snigger (plural sniggers)

1. A partly suppressed or broken laugh
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 255,

     Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.

2. A sly or snide laugh

Translations

a sly or snide laugh

French: ricanement (fr) m.

Verb

snigger (third-person singular simple present sniggers, present participle sniggering, simple past and past participle sniggered)

1. (intransitive) To emit a snigger
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 22,

     ...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.

Translations

Translations

Dutch: gniffelen (nl), stiekem lachen (nl)

French: ricaner (fr)

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:laugh

Anagrams

• gingers, niggers