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noun

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as in chuckle
an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement a love scene that unintentionally drew sniggers from the audience

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snigger

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verb

ˈsni-gər How to pronounce snigger (audio)
as in to laugh
to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions we sniggered as the actor kept forgetting his lines

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Recent Examples of snigger
Noun
Each time an audience member so much as sniggers or sneezes, money is docked from a prize pot of £250,000 ($330,000), the slightest noise costing them up to £10,000 ($13,000) each time. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 May 2025 The tribal leader sniggers; a trade with foreign infidels is inconceivable. — Bing West, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
Verb
Jaclyn, Laurie, and Kate — immediately reverting back to the bitchy girls who ruled Nowhere High together — sniggered at the scene from behind designer sunnies. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025 Dour officials from the Department of Homeland Security who spotted his posts saw nothing to snigger about. — The Economist, 8 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snigger
  1. chuckle
  2. laugh
  3. laughter
  4. smile
  5. giggle
  6. snicker
Noun
  • Brian Leonard’s smartly funny ode to his difficult daughter — a child whose behavior was so problematic, the family cycled through 28 therapists — offers plenty of chuckles, even with key questions left unanswered.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The risk, though, with horror-comedy—with dinging from chuckles to shrieks and back again—is always an evacuated center.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of chuckle
Verb
  • After the game, the family reconvened on the field for pictures, laughing over the strange coincidence, or not, of it all.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Faris recalls, laughing, at the film’s world premiere at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of laugh
Noun
  • Nolan Wells should have turned 19 surrounded by a birthday cake, candles and laughter.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Wishing you both a lifetime of love, laughter, and endless adventures!
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of laughter
Verb
  • In 2012, a smiling Jason Arday was photographed by the British press carrying the Olympic flame in the torch relay that preceded the London Games.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • So there sat Pecko on Tuesday afternoon atop a bench inside Dakin Park’s first-base dugout, smiling to hide nerves before the biggest day of his baseball life.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of smile
Noun
  • Her giggles kept interrupting the tune through much of her performance, and soon Pioneer Hall was laughing with her and cheering her through it.
    — Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, donning night-vision giggles, Knoxville gleefully attacks them with trash can lids and tasers.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of giggle
Noun
  • As executed, the 2019 show is an emotional yet refreshingly unsentimental black comedy that snickers in the face of empowerment buzzwords like, well, healing journey.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Classic cookies come in 11 flavors like chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, snicker doodle, white chocolate macadamia nut, fruity pebbles, monster and white chocolate cranberry.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2026
Definition of snicker

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