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  • noun Plural form of sniggerer.

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Examples

  • Hans Erren (posting #7), Steve (who seems unable to give a straight answer), and all the other sniggerers:

    Crowley and North [1991] « Climate Audit 2005

  • She seemed for the first time to notice that a little group of sniggerers were becoming more obstreperous.

    The Convert 1907

  • She seemed for the first time to notice that a little group of sniggerers were becoming more obstreperous.

    The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

  • The moment the whisky had warmed the cockles of his heart Gourlay ceased to care a rap for the sniggerers.

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

  • The nephew is himself a boy, and the sniggerers tempt him to secular thoughts of marbles and string, by secretly offering such commodities to his distant contemplation.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • This causes the sniggerers to regard flight as an eligible move, and I know which of them will go out first, because of the over-devout attention that he suddenly concentrates on the clergyman.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • The nephew is himself a boy, and the sniggerers tempt him to secular thoughts of marbles and string, by secretly offering such commodities to his distant contemplation.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • This causes the sniggerers to regard flight as an eligible move, and I know which of them will go out first, because of the over-devout attention that he suddenly concentrates on the clergyman.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • Saint Anthony for a while resists, but presently becomes a backslider, and in dumb show defies the sniggerers to 'heave' a marble or two in his direction.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • Who, apart from Mr and Mrs Johnson and the other family involved, plus a few prurient sniggerers, cares a toss about Boris's extra-curriculars?

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2010

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