OED Word o' the day...

[lsanderson]

sniggle... probably nothing like wot you're thinking.

• verb [no obj.] fish for eels by pushing a baited hook into holes in which they are hiding.
— origin mid 17th cent.: frequentative, based on earlier snig ‘small eel’, of unknown origin.

Comments

[carbonel]

"Sniggle" is one of those words that you see on crossword puzzles from time to time. Along with "adit" and "nene" and "apse."

WoW

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I guess that's what comes from not doing crossword puzzles... ;-)