It is hard not to accept unconditionally, uncritically and as truthful, some pronouncement a pundit in your crowd delivers with a “snigger.” There is a snigger factor in iconoclasm.  It is present in caricature and in parody.  To snigger is to be part of deconstruction of someone else’s propensity to grandeur, utopianism or self- proclaimed far-sightedness in the company of myopics.

The dictionary definition I read said that snigger is the same as snicker and it is derisive in content and context. People who snigger like to comment in a negative way about things they sometimes have no real feelings or understanding about.  However, they do have this ability to be witty and obnoxious when someone else is trying to be serious and intelligent.  Such things as snickers or sniggers, when used against a serious person, can be devastating.  Rush Limbaugh is an expert at this.  So, too, are the masters of ceremony who “roast” a guest, much to the amusement of on-lookers.  This seems to be a part of our anti-intellectual but visceral community who cannot stand to see someone get the Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer because they champion a different candidate.  There is always someone who is willing to be a detractor and sometimes devastatingly humorous through the ability to expose another’s nakedness underneath the externals.

Did you ever hear a horse nicker? This is a form of neighing. They do this and some think horses make commentary in this way about human frailties. Delicate humans ride more powerful, heavier and much larger horses but humans have the capacity to snicker or snigger and are often snide. We humans have this propensity to want to tear the expensive clothes off clotheshorses who have the wherewithal to buy expensive labels and have custom tailors embellish what nature skimped upon. We would like to see them with their pants down or off so that what our literature proclaims as awesome is seen as what it is – pretty pitiful. (Snicker)

Clothes really make a difference.  If you ever have seen scenes at a nudist gathering your immediate reaction is “cover that up”. Young and nubile seem the requirements for near nudity or artfully posed and seductive placement of body parts. (Snigger)

I could have a really good time expounding on the prideful and wasteful effort to cover up or pervert what nature provided. Some people decide that surgically altering their appearance to some epitome of “perfection” or making something large and distorted more refined is worth the pain - but they are fooling no one but themselves. (Snort, Snicker, Snigger)