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▪ I. snigger, n.1|ˈsnɪgə(r)|
[f. snigger v.1 Cf. snicker n.1]
An act of sniggering; a slight or half-suppressed laugh; a snicker.
1823Bee Dict. Turf 162 Snigger, ill-suppressed laughter. 1830Examiner 677/2 He appeared to have a constant snigger lurking under his frown. 1855J. H. Newman Callista (1890) 64 Juba..indulged himself from time to time in an inward laugh or snigger. 1882‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versa vi. 127 Suspecting that the faint sniggers he heard were indulged in at his own expense.
fig.1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. v. (1872) IX. 77 Ages..which have lost their mirth, and become all one snigger of mock-mirth.
▪ II. ˈsnigger, n.2 local.
[f. snigger v.2]
A kind of grapple used by salmon poachers.
1901Scotsman 29 March 7/1 Labourers..poached for salmon on the Don..by means of sniggers.
▪ III. snigger, v.1|ˈsnɪgə(r)|
[Imitative: cf. snicker v.]
1. intr. To laugh in a half-suppressed, light or covert manner; to snicker.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Snicker or Snigger. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers I. 188 This, and other such Jokes, set most of the Assembly a sniggering. 1771F. Burney Early Diary July, Mr. Featherstone enjoyed it prodigiously, sniggering and joking. 1822Scott Nigel iii, So they let me go, and rode a' sniggering, laughing, and rounding in ilk ither's lugs. 1867Carlyle Reminis. (1881) ii. 15 He never laughed loud, and indeed oftener sniggered slightly than laughed in any way. 1887Jessopp Arcady iv. 112 They snigger and grin sometimes, and then turn away as if ashamed of themselves.
fig.1894Mrs. Oliphant Hist. Sk. Q. Anne vii. 364 The younger world..still sniggers in its sleeve [etc.].
b. Const. at or over.
1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xxxiii, Fools, sniggering at you because they won't understand what you mean. 1859Thackeray Virgin. lxxviii, She..sniggered over the faults of the self-styled righteous with uncommon satisfaction. 1887Jefferies Amaryllis xiv, He kind of sniggered in a foolish way at Amaryllis. 1899Q. Rev. Apr. 487 Norwich has ceased to snigger over the youthful indiscretions of George Borrow.
c. dial. (See quots.)
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Snigger, Sniggeren, exulting, boasting, jeering. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Snigger, to sneer ill-naturedly.
2. trans. To utter with a snigger.
1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 96 ‘Don't you wish yours was, Doctor?’ ‘Eh, eh, eh,’ sniggered Heale. 1905P. White Patient Man xiv, ‘Then he has the oddest way of keeping it,’ sniggered Mrs. Archie.
▪ IV. ˈsnigger, v.2 local.
[Of obscure origin: cf. sniggle v.1]
trans. To catch (salmon) by means of weighted hooks.
1886Fishing Gaz. 30 Jan. 58/1 In the way of grappling—or sniggering, as it is more politely termed—i.e., dragging the river with huge grapples and lead attached for the purpose of keeping them to the bottom of the pool. 1898Scotsman 19 Nov. 6 The bailiffs..said they had no doubt, from the position and movements of the accused and his companions.., that they were ‘sniggering’ salmon. |