snigger

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'Isn't it ... * snigger* ... terrible!'

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  1. noun A snicker.
  2. intransitive verb To snicker.

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  • "The Winter Fever--it always shows up in Mlusine along with the rains and it was working its way through the Lower City with a butcher's knife and a nasty snigger," Mildmay tells us. —  FSF - March2006
  • When Pa uttered one of his jokes he laughed his snigger-laugh. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • At first it was a snigger, then it ballooned out of control. —  JENNIFER GOVERNMENT - Max Barry
  • It's the reason greek singer Anna Vissi (in her 40s in the Ricky Martin / Jlo / Shakira etc 'foreign music stars getting a push in other countries' boom of the early 2000s) had a hard time recording / having her International (snigger) album promoted and why the same labels went nuts for the just 21 at the time Helena Paparizou (but she said she was too lazy to make the effort)
  • What makes me snigger is that crezi in dumnezeu has "crazy" amd "dumn" in it. —  Pharyngula
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snicker ·  slinking ·  slagging ·  snow-blindness ·  seesaw ·  giggle ·  jibe ·  sarcasms ·  will-worship ·  contemn

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snigger:   sniggered
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