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Flashback Monday! Fifteen years ago today, I posted this:
snirtle (SNER-tl) - v., to snigger, to laugh with snorts. n., a snigger.
Or as one British dictionary puts it, "a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp. one partly stifled." Somewhat known in British English, largely used in Scottish English. As I commented in the old post, I have no idea why we don't use this word more. First recorded in the 17th century, either alteration of snicker or of snirt, "an unsuccessfully suppressed snort of laughter" in Scots ("probably imitative").
---L.
snirtle (SNER-tl) - v., to snigger, to laugh with snorts. n., a snigger.
Or as one British dictionary puts it, "a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp. one partly stifled." Somewhat known in British English, largely used in Scottish English. As I commented in the old post, I have no idea why we don't use this word more. First recorded in the 17th century, either alteration of snicker or of snirt, "an unsuccessfully suppressed snort of laughter" in Scots ("probably imitative").
---L.
