† snivelardn.
Obsolete. rare.
A sniveller.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile person
clienta1393
snivelard1398
a dog for (also to) the bowc1405
fawnerc1440
snivellerc1450
slave1521
footstool1531
minion1560
footman1567
cringer1582
earthworm1583
yea-sayer1584
croucher1587
creeper1589
sneak-up1598
spaniel1598
sneak-cupa1616
servile1632
puppy dog1651
clientelary1655
lackey1692
groveling1708
prostite1721
prostitute1721
toad-eater1742
groveller1779
cringeling1798
creeping Jesusc1818
toady1826
truckler1827
crawler1847
flunkey1854
doormat1861
dog robber1863
heeler1875
slaveling1884
bootlicker1890
fetch-and-carry1905
poodle1907
yes-woman1927
ass-licker1939
ass-kisser1951
chamcha1966
fart-catcher1971
the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > [noun] > through nose > person
snivelard1398
snivellerc1450
snifterer1855
sniffer1864
sniffler1887
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > snivelling > sniveller
snivelard1398
snivellerc1450
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum v. xiii. (Tollemache MS.) The nose is sum tyme let..by bredynge of superfluite..in þe holis of the nose, as it fareþ in sneuelardis.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 606 Pusio, a sneuelard.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 461/2 Snyvelard, or he þat spekythe yn the nose, nasitus.
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