What's the difference between chortle and snigger?

Chortle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
  • (2) "One-nil to the champions" chortled the 2,100 Cardiff fans.
  • (3) At first, all seemed fine, as we chortled happily away over how she only came up with the idea for the buses seconds before she announced them on air when she was being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and how surprised she was that it wasn't only twentysomethings from New York who turned up, but people of all ages from all states.
  • (4) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
  • (5) Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf.
  • (6) "If I were Kim Jong-il I would unify the People's Republic of Korea with the old Peoples Republic of East Germany and make everyone wear Supreme Liederhosen," chortles Bem Bamford.
  • (7) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
  • (8) "They're a bit daft up north, that's why," chortles Gary Neville.
  • (9) A seemingly endless capacity to out-chortle Bugs Bunny.
  • (10) closer to realisation after John Cleese told comedy website Chortle that he has struck a deal with MGM, the studio that holds the rights to the film.
  • (11) My father at 93 is bedbound and in a nursing home but I have heard him talking and chortling to himself – his sense of humour still somewhere there with the memory loss and confusion of dementia.
  • (12) The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of critics, with users of Chortle , a comedy website, voting for the winners.
  • (13) 2.42pm BST Time to chortle away at the latest in our series of brick-by-brick videos.
  • (14) Despite what the mainstream media told us, black women never stopped aspiring to possess the curves society so hated; we chortled in cinemas at Queen Latifah’s glee from a yes response to the age-old question “Does my butt look big in this?” in the 2005 comedy Beauty Shop.
  • (15) Seeing his life’s toil all laid out on one floor amounts to an “existential crisis”, he chortles, only half tongue-in-cheek.
  • (16) A Guardian and an Observer columnist have each won prizes in the Chortle comedy awards.
  • (17) If I don’t commit suicide, then otherwise my body is very healthy,” he told Indian television with a characteristic chortle.
  • (18) The Chortle comedy awards have courted controversy by shortlisting only two solo female comics, out of a total of 54 nominations.
  • (19) House of Cards, which we all love, is more of a melodrama,” Turnbull says, chortling for the first time in an interview with Guardian Australia.
  • (20) Photograph: Tom Jenkins “Although I’m a little hoarse today as I was cheering so much last night at the football!” chortles the ol’ (slightly husky) smoothy.

Snigger


Definition:

  • (n.) See Snicker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (2) Almost 5,000 people commented beneath the article on the paper's website and many more did so on Twitter, with the majority of the comments sniggering at Brick's Zoolander-esque self-descriptions and the seven photos of her that the Mail published, all but begging for cruel comparisons to be made.
  • (3) Try saying “political debate in Britain” without sniggering.
  • (4) Also the way Blatter behaved, if you remember on stage, having a snigger and having a laugh at us.
  • (5) A political debate that revolves around sniggering at women’s body parts and smirks about gay hairdressers?
  • (6) Instead of sniggering at its misfortunes we should all be very worried indeed about its fate.
  • (7) There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do, nobody.” Asked about the nine women who have come forward to accuse him of the sexually predatory behavior he bragged about in a 2005 video leaked earlier this month , Trump insisted they were all either seeking “10 minutes of fame” or had been somehow orchestrated by Clinton’s campaign.
  • (8) In leftwing circles it is always felt there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.” He was right too: in no other progressive European tradition do you find a similar reluctance to fly the flag.
  • (9) I struggle with the po-faced earnestness of my role: it's hard to "teach from the heart" when I'm sniggering about what they all look like with their bums in the air.
  • (10) The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
  • (11) At this point, we expect the doorbell to ring and schadenfreude to leap out from behind the marble fountain before barging past us and sniggering at the gold toilet.
  • (12) The leading American neoconservative William Kristol recently wrote an article in which he says that browsing Orwell in an airport store reminded him once again why Democrats in the US may not be fit to govern: their "sniggering" attitude to American failure in Iraq shows that "they no longer even try to imagine what action and responsibility are like".
  • (13) [Sniggers for ages] What's that story about a house party at yours when Alex Ferguson turned up?
  • (14) In the end, however, Carter Page offered little except confusion and the occasional snigger, during a rambling presentation and an evasive question-and-answer session.
  • (15) We giggle at these cosmopolitan class-traitors and snigger at these soulful hipsters.
  • (16) There was much sniggering in rehearsals as all these posh public schoolboys tried to be working class.
  • (17) (Roars of approval from the Tory benches, suppliant sniggers from the sketchwriters.)
  • (18) Some of the younger contingent sniggered as he spoke.
  • (19) Straw has recently claimed that the report has played a key part in a "deep-seated cultural change" towards race in Britain: "The pervasive, open racism of the fifties and sixties, the pernicious, sniggering racism of the seventies, eighties and nineties is gone.
  • (20) I'd like to think a certain famous Argentinian football player who died yesterday is sniggering away up in heaven, laughing at how well his divine retribution has worked in the wake of the host nation foolishly not extending him the courtesy of a minute's silence before kick-off in tonight's match.

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