Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of snivel
- not comparableCovered or dripping with nasal mucus; snotty.
Nor imitate with Socrates to wipe thy snivelled nose Upon thy cap, as he would doe, nor yet upon thy clothes.
1619, Richard Weste, The Booke of Demeanor, London: Nathaniel Butter, page 82 more examples
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.
1576, Robert Peterson, transl., Galateo of Maister Iohn Della Casa, London: Raufe Newbery, page 13[…] she felt she could not forgive the boy for being the huddled, blubbering object, all wet and snivelled, which he was.
1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 13, in The Rainbow, London: Martin Secker, published 1926, page 367
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