Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To laugh in a suppressed manner; snicker. Burns, Jolly Beggars.
Examples
“_Snirt, snirtle_, concealed laughter, to breathe the nostrils in a displeased manner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snirtle’.
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Funny Laughter Words
Words that speak humor
humor, laugh, funny, laughter, hilarity, guffaw, chortle, giggle, burst, hilarious, happy, chuckle and 66 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Laffterglow
HA, HA.
chortle, manlaughter, snicker, guffaw, snort, chuckle, titter, giggle, laugh, gelastic, snigger, har-de-har and 60 more...
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Old words that deserve revival
anywhen, batten, bedswerver, blashy, brightsome, bub, busk, canty, chuff, croodle, cumberworld, draggle and 42 more...
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laneyw's list
funny,arcane,witty,useless
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snirtle.

Prolagus Wi' ghastly e'e poor tweedle-dee
Upon his hunkers bended,
An' pray'd for grace wi' ruefu' face,
An' so the quarrel ended.
But tho' his little heart did grieve
When round the tinkler prest her,
He feign'd to snirtle in his sleeve,
When thus the caird address'd her...
(The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata, by Robert Burns) Aug 5, 2008
reesetee It is a great word! I'm not sure it's obsolete, though. Might it be a dialect? :-) Aug 1, 2008
whichbe This word is so adorable. Aug 1, 2008
chained_bear I do this in church! Glad there's a word for it. Aug 1, 2008
whichbe This is an obsolete word meaning to try to suppress one's laughter. Aug 1, 2008