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  • adjective Prone to sniggering.

Etymologies

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snigger +‎ -y

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Examples

  • He seems to have penchant for the kind of sniggery, hand-over-mouth type humor that appeals mostly to 10-year old boys.

    Dembski as the David Seville of Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Because inevitably the whole Cipriani/Henson/Foden thing will lead to grim moments of nostalgia programming 30 years hence in which our television screens are clogged up with red-faced middle-aged blokes getting all sniggery about that time that Danny, you know, "did it" with a lady.

    Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011

  • And when I was 14 my two best friends and I cooked a roast chicken dinner for my mother, who was considerably older, and it has gone down in the annals of family history as a sniggery giggling noise.

    Hallowe'en means my birthday is coming ailbhe 2003

  • It was like a schoolboy sniggery thing in this middle-class world of comparative innocence.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • The climate scientist in Greenland is called 'Dr Ray Boykin' - just as preposterous a name as Dr. Cox, of course, but less sniggery.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Where Craven's film compounded sniggery sadism and class clowning - the comic relief is actually harder to get through than the rape - this new

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

  • Where Craven's film compounded sniggery sadism and class-clowning - the comic relief is actually harder to get through than the rape - this new

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Where Craven's film compounded sniggery sadism and class clowning - the comic relief is actually harder to get through than the rape - this new

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Where Craven's film compounded sniggery sadism and class clowning-the comic relief is actually harder to get through than the rape-this new

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

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