{"id":21106,"date":"2021-06-23T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:23:56","slug":"snirtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21106","title":{"rendered":"Snirtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word I learnt yesterday from the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/somethingrhymeswithpurple\/4c2f222e-c562-428f-877e-189c16d55fa3\">Something Rhymes With Purple podcast<\/a> was <strong>snirtle<\/strong>, which means &#8220;to try to suppress your laughter (often without success)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gymnasticks\/3548943589\/in\/photolist-6pBghz-694MKW-8ueKX-2Zmar-4mACu-4dGHS-3s9SjH-3fPXJ2-4pY4L5-2kxKHRz-2jYjw4J-2iKweDm-2jK2Qhv-2iHcqNW-pr3J7-2jqviYU-2krYasv-RcwnKu-84s8kf-7z6w2E-az5HzU-4YtFBf-Y3dCe-gPC6Gm-7m31Bc-2jSDHVE-5KZgi-4mPeZJ-XWMEz-56ZNn-DxnmD-cMqm57-8tddK-48TENk-6ov3YT-bqashY-9GtVd3-6ov1LZ-6ov2iZ-6ov1XT-JbDdR-iGNEi1-6ouZn2-6ozcAQ-8hXmbb-8ULzkN-5JUMgq-bgc7V-c11c5Y-45naX\" title=\"laughing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3541\/3548943589_1cb85db6f8.jpg\" alt=\"laughing\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/snirtle\">Merriam-Webster dictionary<\/a> it is Scots and means &#8220;to laugh with snorts&#8221;, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snirtle\">Wiktionary<\/a> defines it as &#8220;to snigger&#8221; or &#8220;a snigger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/snirt\">Dictionaries of the Scots Language \/<br \/>\nDictionars o the Scots Leid<\/a>, <strong>snirtle<\/strong> [\u02c8sn\u026art\u0259l] is a variation of <strong>snirt<\/strong>, which means &#8220;to snigger, to make a noise through the nose when attempting to stifle laughter, to sneer&#8221;, &#8220;to snort, to breathe sharply and jerkily through the nose&#8221;, or &#8220;a snigger, a suppressed laugh&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some related expressions and examples of how it&#8217;s used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to snirt(le) (with)in one&#8217;s sleeve = to snigger surreptitiously<\/li>\n<li>to snirt out a-laughing = to burst out into laughter, after having unsuccessfully tried to stifle it<\/li>\n<li>The young were snirtin&#8217; in their sleeves<\/li>\n<li>He snirtled in an ecstasy of disgust<\/li>\n<li>Mary, still choking, snirted tea over the table<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Snirtle<\/strong> and <strong>snirt<\/strong> are probably initative of the sounds you make when you snirt or snirtle.<\/p>\n<p>Are there words with similar meanings in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word I learnt yesterday from the Something Rhymes With Purple podcast was snirtle, which means &#8220;to try to suppress your laughter (often without success)&#8221;. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it is Scots and means &#8220;to laugh with snorts&#8221;, and Wiktionary defines it as &#8220;to snigger&#8221; or &#8220;a snigger&#8221;. According to Dictionaries of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21111,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}