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- verb Present participle of
snigger .
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Examples
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All that matters is putting one over on the Tories and when they have done so, in what they perceive to be yet another glorious victory in the great class war, they will sneak away sniggering from the Parliament which they have just turned into a pumpkin.
Archive 2008-03-02 2008
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All that matters is putting one over on the Tories and when they have done so, in what they perceive to be yet another glorious victory in the great class war, they will sneak away sniggering from the Parliament which they have just turned into a pumpkin.
RIP The UK : Casually Butchered For The Convenience & Well-Being Of Socialism 2008
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While I am somewhat more niggardly with the word sniggering, I do not see it as indicative of some repressed racism.
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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NBob - Once again we get sniggering from the provinces about good ol’ Sydney town.
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Lord Wrotham's laugh resembled that laugh peculiar to "society" folk, -- the laugh civil-sniggering, which is just a tone between the sheep's bleat and the peewit's cry.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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I think it's rather niggardly to take umbrage at your use of "sniggering"; I think they're trying to blacken your reputation.
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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IN THE COMMENTS: Working on the theory that there's racism everywhere, readers are questioning my use of the word "sniggering"!
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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Your not fooling me, Professor, not when you cleverly work in a word like "sniggering".
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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IN THE COMMENTS: Working on the theory that there's racism everywhere, readers are questioning my use of the word "sniggering"!
Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Working on the theory that there's racism everywhere, readers are questioning my use of the word "sniggering"!
Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007
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