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Snivel   Listen
noun
Snivel  n.  Mucus from the nose; snot.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Snivel" Quotes from Famous Books



... lightheartedly. It had begun like a page of romance. Now, shorn of its glamour, it seemed to be turning to grim reality. Tommy—that was all that mattered. Many times in the day Tuppence blinked the tears out of her eyes resolutely. "Little fool," she would apostrophize herself, "don't snivel. Of course you're fond of him. You've known him all your life. But there's no need to be ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... from the consonants ns taken from nasus, and transposed that they may the better correspond, sn denote nasus; and thence are derived many words that relate to the nose, as snout, sneeze, snore, snort,snear, snicker, snot, snivel, snite, snuff, snuffle, snaffle, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson

... The sound of her frightened snivel aged him. He tiptoed to the barn door, eying a light in the farm-house. He reached far up to the latch of the broad door and pulled out the wooden pin. The latch slipped noisily from its staple. The door opened with a groaning creek and banged ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... dolorem &c. (regret) 833[Lat][Vergil]; give sorrow words. sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; "waft a sigh from Indus to the pole" [Pope]; sigh "like a furnace" [As you Like It]; wail. cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber[obs3], whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes[Fr]; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer. scream &c. (cry out) 411; mew &c. (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan, whine; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... Skelton, "if I ever get my hooks on Helsa!" His voice ended in a snivel but his features were white and ferocious as he started running ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers



Words linked to "Snivel" :   breathing, yawp, ventilation, cry, sniveling, inhale, weep, inspire, breathe in, sniffle, speak, weeping, mouth, blubber, blub, external respiration, snuffle, respiration, tears, grizzle, utter, verbalize, talk, sniveller



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