snivel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus.

   “With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps; With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes, With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.”

2. fiil To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.

   “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;”

3. fiil To say (something) while sniffling or crying.

   “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!””

4. isim The act of snivelling.

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

5. isim Nasal mucus; snot.

   “[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; […]”