snigger
snigger
Definition
snig·ger (snig′ər)
snigger
Usage Examples
Object
- bit: We will just snicker a bit, then delete your email!
Converse of object
- have: In fact, everyone here appeared to have a good snicker.
- hear: Colonel O'Neill could already hear the sniggers in the Pentagon.
- suppress: Judging by the suppressed sniggers from the audience, they were no more impressed by this than I was.
- do: They did snicker but I thought nothing of it.
Preposition: at
- back: The problem is that some people think I can write ( stop sniggering at the back there!
- ourselves...: Yup, we just sniggered at a few ourselves... particularly like those Ozzfest snapshots in Throwdown's diary.
Adjective modifier
- few: Although it won't have you rolling in the aisles the film is still worthy of a few sniggers.
Modifying Another Word
- no: Well, my secret hobby ( no sniggering, now!
- just: We will just snicker a bit, then delete your email!
- n't: Plot: Charles and his wife Diana ( do n't snicker!
- still: I'm still sniggering from the first time I saw it, never mind the last.
- quietly: Are there any of God's promises you're in danger of quietly sniggering at?
- again: DOUGAL: ( back to sniggering again )...Yes.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- over: Not everything, before you start sniggering over that!
- up: Is there anywhere a member who did not secretly snicker up his sleeve at this ridiculous proposition?
Used with why or when
- when: I think it was deliberate, because they were sniggering when I got back.
Preposition: in
- background: Draco was as unpleasant as ever, but he now seems more capable, rather than just sniggering in the background.
Preposition: from
- audience: Judging by the suppressed sniggers from the audience, they were no more impressed by this than I was.
snigger Quotes
Looking back,Iremember theaverage curateat homeas something between a eunuch and a snigger.
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
