[f. as prec.]
1. Of the nature of, accompanied or characterized by, a snigger or sniggers.
1793. in W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 54 (1794), II. 312. Hip here, jade, and bring with thee Jokes and sniggering jollity.
1876. World, V. 21. The writer’s innuendoes and sniggering asides … are coarse and disgusting.
1882. Besant, All Sorts, 44. You saw his sniggerin’, sneerin’ way with me.
2. That sniggers; snickering.
1815. Sporting Mag., XLVI. 68. No doubt there is plenty of gaping and sniggering fools who will say [etc.].
1860. Dickens, in All Year Round, 5 May, 87/1. The aunt and nephew in this City church are much disturbed by the sniggering boys.
1887. Hall Caine, Deemster, x. He had almost lifted his hand to fell the sniggering waistrel.
Hence Sniggeringly adv.
1886. Jerome, Idle Th., 111. Glancing round with an imbecile smile, you sniggeringly observe that [etc.].
