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		sniggersnig‧ger /ˈsnɪɡə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive]    sniggerOrigin: 1700-1800 snicker  VERB TABLEsnigger |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | snigger |   | he, she, it | sniggers |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sniggered |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sniggered |   | he, she, it | has sniggered |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sniggered |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will snigger |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sniggered |  
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 | Present | I | am sniggering |   | he, she, it | is sniggering |   | you, we, they | are sniggering |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was sniggering |   | you, we, they | were sniggering |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sniggering |   | he, she, it | has been sniggering |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sniggering |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sniggering |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sniggering |  
    - Ruth tripped and fell as she walked up the steps. The boys behind her sniggered.
 
 - Ballantyne sniggered and Mitchell chuckled too.
 - He sniggered and walked from the burning drum.
 - Katie sniggered and snorted and even Graham smiled.
 - No one sniggered when football coaches, business executives and politicians became fairer haired.
 - Once, a dealer at Harvard Securities admitted to a director that he had been paid twice, and the director sniggered.
 - The one with the thinning blonde hair made a remark at which the second man sniggered.
 - They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
 
   ► laugh to make sounds with your voice and move your face, because you think that something is funny: · He looked so funny that we couldn’t stop laughing. ► giggle to laugh quickly in a high voice, especially in a slightly silly way, or because you are nervous or embarrassed: · A group of teenage girls were giggling in a corner.· She tends to giggle when she meets new people. ► chuckle to laugh quietly, especially because you are thinking about or reading something funny: · He was chuckling to himself over an article in the paper.· ‘We used to get up to all kinds of mischief.’ She chuckled at the memory. ► snigger British English, snicker American English to laugh quietly in an unkind or unpleasant way, for example when someone is hurt or embarrassed: · Billy stood up and started to sing, and one or two people sniggered. ► titter to laugh quietly in a high voice, especially about something that is rude or about sex, or is embarrassing for someone: · As a nation we love to titter over politicians’ sex scandals.· schoolboys tittering over a magazine ► roar with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a deep voice: · I could hear my father roaring with laughter at something on TV. ► shriek with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a high voice: · Patsy chased him down the stairs, shrieking with laughter. ► howl with laughter to laugh very loudly – used especially about a group of people laughing together: · His plays have made audiences howl with laughter. ► in stitches laughing so much that you cannot stop: · It was such a funny film – it had us all in stitches. ► guffaw to laugh very loudly and without trying to stop yourself: · The audience guffawed at his nonstop jokes. ► cackle to laugh loudly in an unpleasant way: · The old woman cackled at the trouble she was causing. to laugh in a cruel or nasty way► laugh at to laugh or make unkind jokes about someone, because you think they are stupid or silly: · The other children laughed at Lisa because her clothes were old-fashioned.· At first I was terrified of being laughed at. ► snigger British /snicker American to laugh quietly at something that is not supposed to be funny, for example when someone is hurt or embarrassed: · Ruth tripped and fell as she walked up the steps. The boys behind her sniggered.· As he walked across the stage, Billy could hear people snickering and whispering. ► make fun of to make someone or something seem stupid by laughing at them, or by saying things that make other people laugh at them: · Stop making fun of me!· The other girls used to make fun of the way she spoke. ► jeer if a group of people jeer  at someone in a public place, they laugh unkindly at that person and shout rude things at them: · The boys jeered as she ran away.· He was booed and jeered by the spectators when he argued with the umpire.jeer at: · After the match the crowd were all jeering at him.    British English to laugh quietly in a way that is not nice at something which is not supposed to be funny SYN snicker American Englishsnigger at  What are you sniggering at? This is a serious poem.► see thesaurus at laugh—snigger noun [countable]  |