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
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 Sir Walter Scott
But, in my country, it is more usual to duck that official, and go on netting, sniggling, salmon-roeing, and destroying sport in the sacred name of Liberty.
From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Andrew Lang
Our idea of November sport with the rod is sniggling for goldfish in the conservatory.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
