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"ref": "1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623, […] a Hagg, a Fury by my side; With hollow, yellow teeth (or none perhaps)",
"text": "With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps;\nWith wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes,\nWith driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose."
},
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"text": "1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,\n[…] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air."
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"ref": "1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 9, in The Hobbit, New York: Random House, published 1982, page 187",
"text": "[…] 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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"(intransitive) To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus."
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"roman": "podsmǎrčam",
"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
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"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
"word": "tuhista"
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"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
"word": "fungar"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
"word": "tief einatmen"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
"word": "snufse"
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"sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
"word": "fungar"
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"ref": "1660, Roger L’Estrange, “No Fool to the Old Fool”, in A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions, London: Henry Brome, page 95",
"text": "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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"ref": "1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 61, in The Adventures of Roderick Random, volume 2, London: J. Osborn, page 267",
"text": "[…] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]",
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"ref": "1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 15, in Little Women",
"text": "I never snivel over trifles like that.",
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"ref": "1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed, New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1, page 17",
"text": "ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.\nBASTON: What a hard child you are.\nANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.\nBASTON: You could have said “crying.”\nANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.",
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"word": "nyyhkiä"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
"word": "pleurnicher"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
"word": "schniefen"
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"sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
"word": "klynke"
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"word": "bære seg"
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"word": "snufse"
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"word": "tute"
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"ref": "1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The White Company",
"text": "I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn.",
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"ref": "1692, John Dennis, “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle”, in Poems in Burlesque, London, page 2",
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"ref": "1792, Charles Dibdin, chapter 5, in Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe, volume 1, London, page 50",
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"ref": "1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53",
"text": "He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]",
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"text": "1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,\nIn streams the blood and snivel flows\nFrom many a Grecian’s snotty nose,"
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"ref": "1860, Ellis Wynne, translated by George Borrow, The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, London: John Murray, page 86",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1952, Flannery O’Connor, chapter 3, in Wise Blood, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1962, page 59",
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"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ba",
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"word": "маңҡа"
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"code": "grc",
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"word": "orrváladék; takony"
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"_dis1": "1 99",
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"roman": "nosovája slizʹ",
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],
"word": "носова́я слизь"
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"word": "со́пли"
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "snivel",
"trace": ""
}
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