different between snoggle vs sniggle

English

Etymology

Blend of snog +? snuggle?

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

snoggle (third-person singular simple present snoggles, present participle snoggling, simple past and past participle snoggled)

1. (informal) To kiss.
   • 2001, Billie, Re: Meg went dateless in Aspen, alt.gossip.celebrities, <[email protected]>

     No, she and Crowe both attended, but they entered and exited separately, but were seen dancing and snoggling together.

   • 2003, "dog", Re: What is the best selling jazz album of all time?, rec.music.jazz, <[email protected]>

     Hey he's not bad when reading a book, or snoggling with a lady.

   • 2007, Dirty Sick Pig, Joekerr's account, alt.psst.hoy, <kd3_h.4536$st3.1349@trnddc06>

     I ended up with an older woman at a club last night. She looked ok for a 57-year old. We drank a bit, and a had a bit of a snoggle and she asked if I'd ever had a Sportsman's Double.

   • 2010 (2012), Roger Ebert, "Chandi Chowk to China", Chicago Sun-Times, reprinted in A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck, Andrews McMeel Publishing, ?ISBN, page 39

     [...] so that the greatest tension in all romances comes as a heroine is maybe, just maybe, about to kiss someone. This is always spellbinding and illustrates my maxim that it is less erotic to snoggle for sixty minutes than spend sixty seconds wondering if you are almost about to be snoggled.

Anagrams

• Noggles, gelongs, legongs

English

Etymology 1

From an alteration (perhaps due to giggle) of snigger, itself a variant of snicker.

Verb

sniggle (third-person singular simple present sniggles, present participle sniggling, simple past and past participle sniggled)

1. (intransitive) To chortle or chuckle; snicker.
   • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis

     Ay! you see you'll laugh at the bare thought on it — and I'll be bound th' minister, though he's not a laughing man, would ha' sniggled at th' notion of falling in love wi' the child.

Etymology 2

See snig (“a kind of eel”) +? -le (frequentative verbal suffix).

Verb

sniggle (third-person singular simple present sniggles, present participle sniggling, simple past and past participle sniggled)

1. (intransitive) To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their dens.
2. (transitive) To catch by this means.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To ensnare.

Derived terms

• sniggler

Etymology 3

From an alteration of snag +? -le.

Verb

sniggle (third-person singular simple present sniggles, present participle sniggling, simple past and past participle sniggled)

1. (obsolete) To steal something of little value

References

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus 1993.

Anagrams

• eglings, gesling, gingles, leggins, niggles