Meaning of Snivel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of snivelling.
2. Nasal mucus; snot.

Equivalents

Examples

“So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel Made half his Congregation drivel,”

“[…] 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 […]”

“Order! No snivel!—no sentiment!—no regret! I will endure only sense and resolution.”

“Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.”

“[A]nd if thou entreate me not the fayrer, (hope of amendment preventeth many ruines) truſt me, I will batter thy carrion to dirt, whence thou camſt, and ſquiſe thy braine to ſnivell whereof it was curdled; […]”

“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, In streams the blood and snivel flows From many a Grecian’s snotty nose,”

“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.”

“[…] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.”

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