- present tense form of snigger (3rd person singular).
sniggers
Example Sentences
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"Little did they know why I was interested!" he sniggers.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2019
There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women that I do, nobody.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2016
This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2016
Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2016
After some icy staring about to detect the culprit, and several smothered sniggers from around the room, the little fat friar puffed himself up once more and declaimed firmly: “Grayling à la Redwall.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
