sniggery, a. colloq.
(ˈsnɪgərɪ)
[f. snigger v. + -y1.]
Characterized by sniggering; prone to or liable to cause sniggering; hence, immature, prurient.
| 1960 Times 4 Mar. 4/7 The erotic verse is smutty and sniggery. 1972 J. Belfrage in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. vi. 110 The juxtaposition of three concepts thought by many Australians to be sniggery and low—females, beards and beer—complete a picture which is just sufficiently ‘off’ in taste to render it mildly obscene. 1984 Guardian 10 Nov. 18/2 Suddenly all hushed and sniggery conversation was drowned by a sound of awesome power. 1988 Los Angeles Times 2 May vi. 5/5 There's a smarmy, sniggery quality to its fusion of boys' adventure serial with soft-core bawdiness. |