sniggersome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From snigger +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

sniggersome (comparative more sniggersome, superlative most sniggersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by sniggering
    • 2001, Peter Rushforth, A Dead Language:
      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.
    • 2013, Allan Brown, The Glasgow Smile:
      The former comprise placenames that were perfectly innocent once but which became funny (or sniggersome at least) with the passage of time; [...]