sniggling

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Then the nuns at the abbey hired us to catch eels — and we’ve been sniggling ever since.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

The device still lingers in France and in a few remote parts of England in the method of catching eels which is known as "sniggling."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

"An accident, I hope?" with a little sniggling laugh.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

Our idea of November sport with the rod is sniggling for goldfish in the conservatory.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Anglers may see an analogy between these British negotiations with the Dutch and the tardy and tantalising sport of sniggling for eels.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose