Usually means: Laugh quietly in a scornful way.
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  1. snigger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snigger: Merriam-Webster
  3. snigger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snigger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snigger: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snigger: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snigger, snigger: Wordnik
  8. snigger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snigger: Wiktionary
  10. snigger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snigger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snigger: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snigger: Dictionary.com
  14. snigger: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Snigger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. snigger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. snigger: Rhymezone
  18. Snigger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. snigger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. snigger: FreeDictionary.org
  21. snigger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. snigger: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snigger: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snigger: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Snigger (offensive), Snigger (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. snigger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. snigger: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (snigger)

▸ noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A partly suppressed or broken laugh.
▸ noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A sly or snide laugh.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To emit a snigger.

Similar:
snicker, nicker, snickle, sniggling, underlaugh, chuckle, giggle, snirt, titter, chortle, more...

Opposite:
giggle, chuckle

Types:
giggle, chuckle, snort, teehee, more...

Adjectives:
little, faint, general, loud, scornful, nasty, suppressed, nervous, quiet, sickly, slight


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Similar:
snicker, nicker, snickle, sniggling, underlaugh, chuckle, giggle, snirt, titter, chortle, more...

Opposite:
giggle, chuckle

Types:
giggle, chuckle, snort, teehee, more...

Adjectives:
little, faint, general, loud, scornful, nasty, suppressed, nervous, quiet, sickly, slight



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