Snivel

Definition: Snivel

Snivel

Noun

1. Whining in a tearful manner.

2. The act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested).

Verb

1. Talk in a tearful manner.

2. Snuff up mucus through the nose.

3. Cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!".

Date "snivel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Synonyms: Snivel

Synonyms: sniveling (n), blubber (v), sniffle (v), snuffle (v), whine (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	Cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, 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; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Snivel

English words defined with "snivel": Sniveled, Snivelled, Snivelling, Snotter. (references)

Etymologies containing "snivel": sniffle. (references)

"Snivel" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Snivel" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

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Language		Translations for "snivel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qarje (cavil, complaint, cry, grumble, kick, lament, mourning, plaint), qaravitje (cavil, nagging, petulance, petulancy, whimper). (various references)

Arabic		‏تباكي, ‏تباكى (cry, weep), ‏سال أنفه, ‏عول (keen, moan, pule, ram, responsibility, sustenance, ululate, wail), ‏عوال, ‏أشرق المخاط بصوت. (various references)

Bulgarian		сополи, разкайвам се лицемерно, хленча (grizzle, mewl, whimper, whine, yammer, yap), хленч (whine), лицемерно разкаяние, подсмърчане (sniff, snuff), подсмърчам, подсмърквам (sniff, snuff, snuffle). (various references)

Chinese		鼻涕 (nasal mucus), 泗 (place name), 洟 . (various references)

Czech		posmrkávat (snuffle), popotahovat, kòourat (squeal, whine), fòukat (grizzle, snuffle, whimper). (various references)

Farsi		فین , نزله (Catarrh, Headcold), زکام (Cold, Headcold, Influenza, Sniffle), ازبینی جاری شدن , اب بینی راباصدابالاکشیدن , اب بینی (Snot), دماغ گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish		vetistellä, itkeä pillittää (blubber). (various references)

French		pleurnicherie, pleurnicher, larmoyer, larmoiement, avoir le nez qui coule, avoir la morve au nez. (various references)

German		schniefen (sniff, sniffle), heulen (bawl, bawling, blubber, blubber out, cry, hoot, howl, howling, roar, roaring, scream, screaming, to cry, to hoot, to howl, ululate, ululation, wail, wailing, whine, whining, yell, yowl, yowling), flennen (blub, blubber, blubber out). (various references)

Greek		κλαψουρίζω (blubber, grizzle, whimper), μυξοκλαίω (pull, sniffle). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"תבכין (whine), לבכות (bewail, blubber, cry, deplore, howl, lament, mourn, weep). (various references)

Hungarian		szipogás (sniffle), nyavalygás, nyafogás (bitching, cant, grizzle, whimper, whine, whining, yammering), csepegő takony. (various references)

Italian		piagnucolare (bleat, Pule, whimper, whine), frignare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		洟 (nasal mucus, snot). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はな (edge, end, flower, margin, nasal mucus, nose, petal, point, snot, tip). (various references)

Manx		stronneragh (humming, sniffling, snivelling), stronnaghey (eclipsis, nasalize, sniff, snort, snuffle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivelsnay

Portuguese		lastimar-se (lament, whine), fungar (sniff, snuffle), escorrer pelo nariz, choramingar (mewl, mule, pule, slobber, whimper, whine). (various references)

Romanian		smiorcãialã, se smiorcãi (mewl), se miorlãi, sclifosi (grizzle, whimper, whine), i curge nasul. (various references)

Russian		хныкать (mewl, pule, whimper, whimpers, whine). (various references)

Scottish		smùc (a snivel, nasal sound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sline, bale (drivel, slaver, slobber, snot), balaviti (drool, slobber). (various references)

Spanish		lloriquear (blub, mewl, whimper). (various references)

Swedish		snörvlande (sniffle, snivelling, stertorous), snörvla (sniffle, snuffle), lipande (snivelling), lipa (blub, pipe). (various references)

Turkish		sümük (mucus, slime, snot), numaradan ağlama, burun çekme (sniffle, snivelling), burnunu çekmek (sniff, sniffle), burnunu çekerek ağlamak, ağlayıp sızlanma (complaint, snivelling), ağlamak (bewail, cry, give a cry, mourn, pipe one's eye, pule, shed tears, turn on the waterworks, wail, weep, whimper, yammer). (various references)

Turkmen		yzlamak (whine). (various references)

Ukrainian		соплі, шморгати носом, причитати, причитання, пхикати (pule, whimper), пхикання (whimper). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự khóc rền rĩ lời nói đạo đức giả, nước mũi, mũi thò lò sự khót sụt sùi, giọng giả nhân giả nghĩa. (various references)

Welsh		llysnafedd (slime). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "snivel": sniveled, sniveler, snivelers, sniveling, snivelled, snivelling, snivels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Snivel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Askival, nivel, shivel, shivell, sintel, sival, smive, snavel, snive, snivell, sniver, snivet, snovel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: levins, livens.
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: evils, lenis, levin, liens, lines, liven, lives, veils, veins, vines.
	-2 letters: evil, isle, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, live, nevi, nils, sine, veil, vein, vies, vile, vine, vise.
	-3 letters: els, ens, ins, lei, lev, lie, lin, lis, nil, sei, sel, sen, sin, vie, vis.
	-4 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, ne, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: alevins, kelvins, silvern, snivels, sylvine, unlives, unveils, valines.
	+2 letters: enlivens, evilness, evulsion, flavines, involves, javelins, leavings, levulins, liveners, liveness, nonlives, novelise, novelist, olivines, ravelins, shelving, sleaving, sleeving, sniveled, sniveler, sylvines, veilings, veinless, veinlets, veinules, ventails, vileness, villeins, violones.
	+3 letters: aliveness, aventails, bivalents, culverins, devilkins, enslaving, enviously, evulsions, galvanise, inclusive, insolvent, intervals, inveigles, inversely, invisible, involutes, involvers, javelinas, juveniles, lenitives, lividness, lovevines, novelised, novelises, novelists, novelizes, novelties, pensively, ravelings, replevins, resolving, revulsion, shaveling, shelvings, shoveling, silvering, slavering, slivering, snivelers, sniveling, snivelled, swiveling, sylvanite, univalves, universal, valencias, valencies, valerians, valiances, vandalise, veinulets, vendibles, vernicles, versional, vilipends, violences, vitellins, vulcanise.
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