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Snivel v. i. (past & past part. sniveled or snivelled; pres. part. sniveling or snivelling)

To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. "Put stop to thy sniveling ditty."

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Etymology of 'Snivel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snivel" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cease your talk, Robin Wakeless! And when you speak of sniveling Puritans, speak of them that do snivel. For though you brought Mistress Endicott here in a rough and unseemly fashion, she has not once winced, no, nor plead for mercy. You are quick to laud a brave front in yourselves: are you less quick to laud it ...

— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay

... it. He's got to find out whether I have or not. What's he paid for? If he calls me up and I get floored, he makes me write it out in Greek and English. Very good. He's caught me, and I don't grumble. I grant you, if I go and snivel to him, and tell him I've really tried to learn it, but found it so hard without a translation, or say I've had a toothache, or any humbug of that kind, I'm a snob. That's my school morality; it's served me, and you too, Tom, for the matter of ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

Words linked to "Snivel" : inspire, whine, speak, verbalise, utter, blub, tears, breathing, talk, external respiration, yawp, crying, verbalize, sniveller, sniveling, inhale, breathe in, ventilation, respiration, cry, sniffle