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snivel
English
Etymology
Old English *snyflan. Akin to sniff, snuff. Related also to Old English snofl (“snot, mucus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sn?v?l/
- Rhymes: -?v?l
Verb
snivel (third-person singular simple present snivels, present participle (UK) snivelling or (US) sniveling, simple past and past participle (UK) snivelled or (US) sniveled)
- (intransitive) To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus.
- Synonym: sniffle
- 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623,[1]
- […] a Hagg, a Fury by my side;
- With hollow, yellow teeth (or none perhaps)
- With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps;
- With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes,
- With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.
- 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,[2]
- […] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, New York: Random House, 1982, Chapter 9, p. 187,[3]
- […] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.
- (derogatory, intransitive) To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:complain
- 1660, Roger L’Estrange, “No Fool to the Old Fool” in A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions, London: Henry Brome, p. 95,[4]
- Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 2, Chapter 61, p. 267,[5]
- […] 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 […]
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 15,[6]
- I never snivel over trifles like that.
- 1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed, New York: Viking, Act 1, Scene 1, p. 17,[7]
- ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
- BASTON: What a hard child you are.
- ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
- BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
- ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.
- (derogatory, transitive) To say (something) while sniffling or crying.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume 2, Chapter 13,[8]
- This by-dialogue prevented my hearing what passed between the prisoner and Captain Thornton; but I heard the former snivel out, in a very subdued tone, “And ye’ll ask her to gang nae farther than just to show ye where the MacGregor is?—Ohon! ohon!”
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, Chapter 9,[9]
- I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harper, Chapter 2,[10]
- ‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume 2, Chapter 13,[8]
Translations
Noun
snivel (plural snivels)
- The act of snivelling.
- 1692, John Dennis, “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle” in Poems in Burlesque, London, p. 2,[11]
- So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel
- Made half his Congregation drivel,
- 1792, Charles Dibdin, Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe, London: for the author, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 50,[12]
- […] after a bit of a snivel, for you know I am a woman in these matters, I had her treated with all decency, and then committed her to Davy Jones’s locker; and for want of a chaplain, I said the burial service myself […]
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 16,[13]
- Order! No snivel!—no sentiment!—no regret! I will endure only sense and resolution.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 42,[14]
- Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.
- 1692, John Dennis, “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle” in Poems in Burlesque, London, p. 2,[11]
- Nasal mucus; snot.
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53,[15]
- He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]
- 1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,[16]
- In streams the blood and snivel flows
- From many a Grecian’s snotty nose,
- 1860, George Borrow (translator), The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Ellis Wynne, London: John Murray, p. 86,[17]
- On quitting this den of furious heat, I got a sight of a lair, exceeding all the rest I had seen in Hell, but one, in frightful stinking filthiness, where was a herd of accursed drunken swine, disgorging and swallowing, swallowing and disgorging, continually and without rest, the most loathsome snivel.
- 1952, Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962, Chapter 3, p. 59,[18]
- […] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53,[15]
Derived terms
- sniveller
- snivelling
- snivelly
Translations
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Anagrams
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sniveler
English
Etymology
snivel +? -er
Noun
sniveler (plural snivelers)
- One who snivels.
- (derogatory) A person who whines and complains about small matters.
Anagrams
- Leviners, leviners, liveners
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