snivel

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"Don't snivel, my dears, for a fellow like that;

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  1. intransitive verb To sniffle.
  2. intransitive verb To complain or whine tearfully.
  3. intransitive verb To run at the nose.
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  • He lowers his snivel-volume for a minute to sound like he has the voice of a great orator. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • I am not sure it is the purpose of art to make one snivel, let alone identify, but never mind. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Give me that rather than the snivel, the chicane, the shake-you-by-the-hand and stab-you-in-the-gloaming, which passes by the name of diplomacy, high diplomacy, I believe The tradition of single combat went back into the very mists of time in the Highlands; and merely the form varied. —  The Black Colonel
  • Do you snivel, old friend? —  The Heptalogia
  • I've done no one any harm.... Only my duty He began to snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his face with it The odd thing that they felt, as they looked at him, was the incredible intermingling of public and private affairs. —  The Secret City
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English snivelen, from Old English *snyflan.

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  1. Early modern English snyvell (after the verb), from Middle English *snovel, *snofel, from Anglo-Saxon *snofel (Somner), snofl (Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms, ii. 24), mucus, snot. Cf. snuffle, and sniffs snuff.
  2. Early modern English sneevle, snevell, snevil, snevyll, snyvell, from Middle English snevelen, snyvelen, snyvellen, also snuvelen, sniff, snivel; from the noun, Anglo-Saxon *snofel, snofl, mucus, snot: see sniffle. Hence, by contraction, snool. Cf. sniff, snuff, snuffle.
 

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