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sniveller|ˈsnɪv(ə)lə(r)|
Also 5 sneveler.
[f. snivel v.]
1. One who snivels or whines. Also in fig. context.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 396, I schal snarle tho sneveleris wyth rith scharp schouris. 1731Swift On his Death Wks. 1755 III. ii. 244 [He would] more lament, when I was dead, Than all the sniv'lers round my bed. 1791Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ep. to Ld. Lonsdale Wks. 1812 III. 13 Despise that thing call'd Meekness; 'tis a sniveller. 1905Speaker 25 Feb. 512/2 Savonarola and his Piagnoni or snivellers..had a fatal influence on art.
2. A cold breeze (causing one to snivel).
1834P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 69 The pinching ‘sniveller’ was changed to a tempest. 1846Ibid. 271 A chill that I took in a deadly cold ‘sniveller’. |