dial. or colloq. [Of doubtful origin. Cf. Norw. snygla to sponge, beg.]
1. intr. a. (See quot. 1837). b. To wriggle, crawl, creep stealthily.
1837. J. F. Palmer, Gloss. Devon Dialogue, To Sniggle, (at taw) to shuffle the hand forwards in an unfair manner; Unde Sniggler.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., 247. Sniggle,… to wriggle away.
1900. Flora A. Steel, Hosts of the Lord, xxiii. There’s a brute trying to sniggle along the wall.
2. trans. To get (a thing) in surreptitiously.
1881. Oxfordsh. Gloss., 98. Sniggle in, to get anything in an underhand manner.
1900. Pollok & Thom, Sports Burma, vi. 189–90. I calculated that if I were successful in my application I could sniggle in those two days as well.
