snigger
verb (used with or without object)
sniggers
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present tense formof snigger (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She sniggers at her boyfriend who teases her as she lines up her shot at a snooker hall in Qinhuangdao, just a few hours' drive from Beijing.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women that I do, nobody.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2016
This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2016
His sniggers became uncontrollable, his body jumped and Piggy rebuked him with dignity.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
