snigger

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Had he not entered, Ginx's Baby, spite of Snigger, would in twenty-four hours have ceased to supply facts to history.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward

The next night, sitting over the cheerful fire and comfortably resting after the labours of the day, I dreamed again, and I saw that Horatio Snigger was “the Office Boy” of Mr. Prigg. 

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard

Snigger, snig′ėr, v.i. to laugh in a half-suppressed, broken manner.—n. a half-suppressed laugh.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

When the child grew hungry and dangerously thin, he brought bottles of pap prepared by Mrs. Snigger, and administered it to him.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward

He took no objection as he took the pap; while Snigger was glad to be able to do an unusual kindness without compromising the parish.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward