Sekirov Dictionary

snivel

/ˈsnɪvəl/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 5

verb3

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To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus.
- With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps; With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes, With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose. — 1611
•
To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.
- […] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […] — 1748
•
To say (something) while sniffling or crying.
- I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn. — 1891

noun2

•
The act of snivelling.
- So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel Made half his Congregation drivel, — 1692
•
Nasal mucus; snot.
- He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […] — 1653

forms

sniveled · snivelled · sniveling · snivelling · snivels

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