Sniggling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chuckle; a snicker. rare

    "How little Tim and Jim stood hiding behind doors, peeping out surreptitiously with gigglings and snigglings indescribable, whilst the august visitor laboriously ascended the narrow and tortuous “nursery staircase,” has passed into the annals […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sniggle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"How little Tim and Jim stood hiding behind doors, peeping out surreptitiously with gigglings and snigglings indescribable, whilst the august visitor laboriously ascended the narrow and tortuous “nursery staircase,” has passed into the annals […]"

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