snigger

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to laugh in a half-suppressed, disrespectful manner

   The boys began to snigger at the teacher's mispronunciation.

Of imitative origin, a variant of snicker, mimicking the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; first attested in the 18th century.

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