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sniggersome

sniggersome adjective: characterised or marked by sniggering.

Adjective

sniggersome (comparative more sniggersome, superlative most sniggersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by sniggering
    • This was to be a minstrel show for the most sniggersome of private audiences, a minstrel show of the sort that would certainly receive a standing (or as near as they could manage) ovation at Papa Brinkman's club when tits and feathers and garters palled.2001, Peter Rushforth, A Dead Language
    • The former comprise placenames that were perfectly innocent once but which became funny (or sniggersome at least) with the passage of time; [...]2013, Allan Brown, The Glasgow Smile

Forms of sniggersome

comparativemore sniggersome
superlativemost sniggersome

Origin of sniggersome

From snigger + -some.

Questions about sniggersome

What does sniggersome mean?
Sniggersome means characterised or marked by sniggering.
What part of speech is sniggersome?
Sniggersome is an adjective.

Words near sniggersome in the dictionary

  1. sniggerers
  2. sniggering
  3. sniggeringly
  4. sniggerings
  5. sniggers
  6. sniggersome
  7. sniggery
  8. snigging
  9. sniggle
  10. sniggled
  11. sniggler

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