With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps; With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes, With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.
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Snivel
//ˈsnɪvəl//
Synonyms for "snivel" (88 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κόρυζα noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- μύξα noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Bashkir
1 entries- маңҡа noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Bulgarian
4 entries- подсмърчане noun (the act of snivelling)
- сополи noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- хленчене noun (the act of snivelling)
- хлипане noun (the act of snivelling)
Czech
4 entries- fňukání noun (the act of snivelling)
- nudle u nosu noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- popotahování noun (the act of snivelling)
- zafňukání noun (the act of snivelling)
Finnish
4 entries- nyyhke noun (the act of snivelling)
- nyyhkytys noun (the act of snivelling)
- räkä noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- tuhina noun (the act of snivelling)
French
3 entries- morve noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- chialer colloquial verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- pleurnicher verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
Galician
1 entries- fungar verb (to breathe heavily through the nose)
German
4 entries- flennen verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- heulen verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- pimmeln verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- pimpeln verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
Hungarian
1 entries- orrváladék; takony noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Norwegian
4 entries- grining noun (the act of snivelling)
- klynk noun (the act of snivelling)
- snufs noun (the act of snivelling)
- snørr noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سوموك noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Polish
4 entries- chlipanie noun (the act of snivelling)
- gil noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- glut noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- mazgajenie się noun (the act of snivelling)
Portuguese
1 entries- fungar verb (to breathe heavily through the nose)
Romanian
1 entries- muci noun (nasal mucus; snot)
Russian
4 entries- носова́я слизь noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- со́пли noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- сопе́нье noun (the act of snivelling)
- хны́канье noun (the act of snivelling)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- cmizdriti verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- цмиздрити verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
Spanish
3 entries- moco noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- gimotear verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
- lloriquear verb (to whine or complain, whilst crying)
Swedish
4 entries- snor noun (nasal mucus; snot)
- snörvel noun (the act of snivelling)
- snörvlande noun (the act of snivelling)
- snörvla verb (to breathe heavily through the nose)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149, […] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.
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[…] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.
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Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;
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