[ UK /snˈɪɡɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. laugh quietly
NOUN
  1. a disrespectful laugh
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How To Use snigger In A Sentence

  • He began to laugh, and some of the henchmen sniggered too.
  • I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
  • Sniggers because you get four-by-two from the armourer who has a hooked tool for getting broken pull-th roughs out of the barrel. Bottled Spider
  • Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
  • There was something of a froideur between us, dating from an occasion a few years earlier when Sue had caught me sniggering over one of her class work sheets.
  • Perhaps it starts with you screaming about finding your reading glasses only to be sniggeringly told by your resident sniggerer that they are perched on top of your head.
  • They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
  • Maybe it's the beribboned high waistlines, maybe it's the delicate petticoats or maybe it's those slightly ridiculous bonnets, but whatever the reason, behind-the-hand sniggers are a certainty.
  • We started to laugh again, muffling our sniggers with our mittened hands.
  • The one with the thinning blonde hair made a remark at which the second man sniggered.
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