snivelled

snivelled

English

Verb

snivelled

1. simple past tense and past participle of snivel

Adjective

snivelled (not comparable)

1. Covered or dripping with nasal mucus; snotty.
   • 1576, Robert Peterson (translator), Galateo of Maister Iohn Della Casa, London: Raufe Newbery, p. 13,

     And to mend these slouenly maners, [they] be not ashamed, many tymes with these filthy napkyns, to wype awaye the sweat that trickleth and falleth downe their browes, their face and their necke (they be such greedy guts in their feeding) and otherwhile to, (when it comes vppon them) spare not to snot their sniueld nose vppon them.

   • 1619, Richard Weste, The Booke of Demeanor, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1619, p. 8,

     Nor imitate with Socrates

     to wipe thy snivelled nose

     Upon thy cap, as he would doe,

     nor yet upon thy clothes.

   • 1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, London: Martin Secker, 1926, Chapter 13, p. 367,

     […] she felt she could not forgive the boy for being the huddled, blubbering object, all wet and snivelled, which he was.