Snigger

I simply need to make folks snigger.

Today, at the eponymous 10 Tib Lane, a door knob is not something at which you point and snigger.

So, what if your friends snigger, what do you care?

Feel the sun on your face, observe the view, ferret amongst the students yourselves, have a snigger, wonder if you could write a book because there are so darned good tips for writers in these pages.

Curators and public are keen on watching high-scoring pitches and even the stiff-upper-lipped cricket cynics of the world wouldn’t quiver or snigger in their seats.

Singer Frankie Bridge and Made in Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews are among the celebrities in this week’s kitchen-challenge heats, with judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace, at this early stage, trying not to snigger at the results.

This was received at the time as diplomatic headline avoidance, with Guardiola smartly sidestepping the trap of writing off rivals’ chances so early in the season, though the odd suppressed snigger could be heard at the mention of Manchester United.

In 1912, Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation – the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written thus ‿ and presents a smiling mouth.