sniggered
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
sniggered
- simple past and past participle of snigger
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
sniggered (not comparable)
- (British, obsolete, slang) Damned, in the sense of "I'll be damned if...", expressing utter certainty.
- Synonym: jiggered
- 1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character, page 52:
- I'm sniggered if I knows what it means.
- 1886, George William M. Reynolds, The mysteries of the court of London, volume 8, page 174:
- I'm sniggered if this ain't a pretty job!
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary