Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sniffle.
- intransitive verb To complain or whine tearfully.
- noun The act of sniffling or sniveling.
- noun Nasal mucus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mucus running from the nose; snot.
- noun Figuratively, in contempt, weak, forced, or pretended weeping; hypocritical expressions of sorrow or repentance, especially in a nasal tone; hypocrisy; cant.
- To run at the nose.
- To draw up the mucus audibly through the nose; snuff.
- To cry, weep, or fret, as children, with snuffing or sniveling.
- Figuratively, to utter hypocritical expressions of contrition or regret, especially with a nasal tone; affect a tearful or repentant state.
- To suffer to be covered, as the nose or face, with snivel or nasal mucus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
- intransitive verb To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
- noun Mucus from the nose; snot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
breathe heavily through thenose ; tosniffle . - verb To
whine orcomplain , whilstcrying . - noun the act of snivelling
- noun
nasal mucus ;snot
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb talk in a tearful manner
- noun the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- verb snuff up mucus through the nose
- verb cry or whine with snuffling
- noun whining in a tearful manner
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vote for who you want to, but you should never, ever again snivel like you are snivelling now.
McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008
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So are you going to snivel like the punk you are that WE are treating YOU the way YOU treat us?
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Does he write insults and incredibly rude BS then snivel like a girlscout with a bulletwound when we return his contempt?
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I love the way people like you are so stupid you do NOTHING but recycle idiocy then snivel that others dont come up with shiny new rebutals to your same old same old idiocy day after day.
Think Progress » Democratic congresswoman proposes pay cut for members of Congress. 2010
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You KNOW you are too stupid to think for yourself so you regurgitate what you have been told to think and snivel like the punk you are.
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Just as I find it tiresome when punks like YOU treat us with condescension and contempt then snivel like a girlscout with a bullet wound that we dont treat YOU with respect.
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Only Republicans can sit and gripe, whine, and snivel over the results of the last election, committing themselves to "no progress on anything".
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Ludicrous on the face of them as IF they were facts then treat us with condescension and contempt then snivel like the punk you are that YOU are treated with the same contempt.
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You come here to insult us attack us and tell lies about us then snivel like the punk you are that we dont treat YOU with respect.
Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform. 2010
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You snivel like a baby when we do it to you but you do it all the time.
ragner commented on the word snivel
There are so many words for crying. In Danish we have 'flaebe', used condescendingly about someone who unjustly tries to attract sympathy. I thought 'snivel' had that specific meaning, but it seems not so. What is your impression?
August 2, 2009