"snivel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsnɪvəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-snivel.wav Forms: snivels [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪvəl Etymology: From Old English *snyflan, also attested in the verbal noun snyflung (“mucus”) from snofl, ultimately from the root of snout. Akin to sniff, snuff. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|ang|*snyflan}} Old English *snyflan Head templates: {{en-noun}} snivel (plural snivels)
  1. The act of snivelling. Translations (the act of snivelling): подсмърчане (podsmǎrčane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), fňukání [neuter] (Czech), zafňukání [neuter] (Czech), popotahování [neuter] (Czech), tuhina (Finnish), nyyhke (Finnish), nyyhkytys (Finnish), klynk [neuter] (Norwegian), snufs [neuter] (Norwegian), grining [common-gender] (Norwegian), tuting [common-gender] (Norwegian), хны́канье (xnýkanʹje) [neuter] (Russian), сопе́нье (sopénʹje) [neuter] (Russian), шмы́ганье (šmýganʹje) [neuter] (Russian), snörvlande (Swedish), snörvel (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-snivel-en-noun-e3W-FEBq Disambiguation of 'the act of snivelling': 99 1
  2. Nasal mucus; snot. Translations (nasal mucus; snot): κόρυζα (kóruza) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), μύξα (múxa) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), маңҡа (mañqa) (Bashkir), сополи (sopoli) [masculine, plural] (Bulgarian), nudle u nosu (Czech), räkä (Finnish), morve [feminine] (French), orrváladék; takony [vulgar] (Hungarian), snørr [feminine, neuter] (Norwegian), سوموك (sümük) (Ottoman Turkish), muci [masculine, plural] (Romanian), носова́я слизь (nosovája slizʹ) [feminine, formal] (Russian), со́пли (sópli) [colloquial, feminine, plural] (Russian), moco (Spanish), snor (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-snivel-en-noun-iR7zk1oM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bashkir translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 30 20 20 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 43 16 13 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 48 14 13 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 60 11 10 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 10 38 16 25 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Bashkir translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 8 59 9 14 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 51 14 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 54 12 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 56 9 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 8 51 13 18 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 55 10 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 10 57 10 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 12 59 11 10 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 10 54 10 16 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 10 62 11 9 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 9 59 10 13 8 Disambiguation of 'nasal mucus; snot': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sniveller, snivelling, snivelly

Verb

IPA: /ˈsnɪvəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-snivel.wav Forms: snivels [present, singular, third-person], snivelling [UK, participle, present], sniveling [US, participle, present], snivelled [UK, participle, past], snivelled [UK, past], sniveled [US, participle, past], sniveled [US, past]
Rhymes: -ɪvəl Etymology: From Old English *snyflan, also attested in the verbal noun snyflung (“mucus”) from snofl, ultimately from the root of snout. Akin to sniff, snuff. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|ang|*snyflan}} Old English *snyflan Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=sniveled|past2_qual=US|past_qual=UK|pres_ptc2=sniveling|pres_ptc2_qual=US|pres_ptc_qual=UK}} snivel (third-person singular simple present snivels, present participle (UK) snivelling or (US) sniveling, simple past and past participle (UK) snivelled or (US) sniveled)
  1. (intransitive) To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: sniffle Translations (to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle): подсмърчам (podsmǎrčam) (Bulgarian), popotahovat [imperfective] (Czech), posmrkávat [imperfective] (Czech), tuhista (Finnish), fungar (Galician), tief einatmen (German), schniefen (German), snufse (Norwegian), fungar (Portuguese), сопе́ть (sopétʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), шмы́гать (šmýgatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), snörvla (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-snivel-en-verb-iIVwUdOi Disambiguation of 'to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle': 76 16 8
  2. (derogatory, intransitive) To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying. Tags: derogatory, intransitive Synonyms: complain Translations (to whine or complain, whilst crying): хленча (hlenča) (Bulgarian), fňukat [imperfective] (Czech), pofňukávat [imperfective] (Czech), nyyhkiä (Finnish), pleurnicher (French), chialer colloquial (French), schniefen (German), schluchzen (German), flennen (German), pimmeln (German), pimpeln (German), winseln (German), heulen (German), klynke (Norwegian), bære seg (Norwegian), snufse (Norwegian), tute (Norwegian), ныть (nytʹ) [colloquial, imperfective] (Russian), хны́кать (xnýkatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), цмиздрити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), cmizdriti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), lloriquear (Spanish), gimotear (Spanish), snörvla (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-snivel-en-verb-h1unrClk Disambiguation of 'to whine or complain, whilst crying': 5 83 11
  3. (derogatory, transitive) To say (something) while sniffling or crying. Tags: derogatory, transitive
    Sense id: en-snivel-en-verb-JsSGeq~a
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: sniffle [verb], snuffle [verb]

Inflected forms

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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)",
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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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          "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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          "text": "I never snivel over trifles like that.",
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          "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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          "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
          "word": "winseln"
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          "word": "heulen"
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          "word": "tute"
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          "_dis1": "5 83 11",
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          "roman": "nytʹ",
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          "word": "ныть"
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          "_dis1": "5 83 11",
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          "roman": "xnýkatʹ",
          "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "хны́кать"
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          "_dis1": "5 83 11",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "5 83 11",
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          "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
          "word": "lloriquear"
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          "_dis1": "5 83 11",
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          "word": "gimotear"
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          "ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 65:",
          "text": "This bye dialogue prevented my hearing what passed between the prisoner and Captain Thornton, but I heard the former snivel out, in a very subdued tone, “And ye’ll ask her to gang nae farther than just to shew ye where the MacGregor is?—Ohon! ohon!”",
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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": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’",
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          "ref": "1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 155:",
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          "ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 65:",
          "text": "This bye dialogue prevented my hearing what passed between the prisoner and Captain Thornton, but I heard the former snivel out, in a very subdued tone, “And ye’ll ask her to gang nae farther than just to shew ye where the MacGregor is?—Ohon! ohon!”",
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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": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’",
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      "code": "bg",
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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": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
      "word": "schniefen"
    },
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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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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
      "word": "fungar"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sopétʹ",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "сопе́ть"
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      "roman": "šmýgatʹ",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
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      "word": "шмы́гать"
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      "sense": "to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle",
      "word": "snörvla"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
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      "word": "pofňukávat"
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      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "nyyhkiä"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "pleurnicher"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "chialer colloquial"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "schniefen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "schluchzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "flennen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "pimmeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "pimpeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "winseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "heulen"
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    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "klynke"
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    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "bære seg"
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    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "snufse"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "tute"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nytʹ",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
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        "imperfective"
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      "word": "ныть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xnýkatʹ",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
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        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "хны́кать"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
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      "word": "цмиздрити"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cmizdriti"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "lloriquear"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "gimotear"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to whine or complain, whilst crying",
      "word": "snörvla"
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  "word": "snivel"
}

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          "ref": "1792, Charles Dibdin, chapter 5, in Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe, volume 1, London, page 50:",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
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          "ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Order! No snivel!—no sentiment!—no regret! I will endure only sense and resolution.",
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          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
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          "text": "[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; […]",
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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:",
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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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      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
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      "word": "orrváladék; takony"
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "snørr"
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      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "sümük",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "word": "سوموك"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "word": "muci"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nosovája slizʹ",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "formal"
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      "word": "носова́я слизь"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sópli",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
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      "word": "со́пли"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "word": "moco"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "nasal mucus; snot",
      "word": "snor"
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  ],
  "word": "snivel"
}

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