sniggling

Example Sentences

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Then the nuns at the abbey hired us to catch eels — and we’ve been sniggling ever since.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

"An accident, I hope?" with a little sniggling laugh.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

Wildrake laughed without ceremony at the gross ignorance of Desborough, and was joined by a sniggling response from behind the cupboard, which, when inquired into, proved to be produced by the serving-men.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

Anglers may see an analogy between these British negotiations with the Dutch and the tardy and tantalising sport of sniggling for eels.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

The device still lingers in France and in a few remote parts of England in the method of catching eels which is known as "sniggling."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various