snivel

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈsnɪvəl/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ɪvəl
  Play

From Middle English snivelen, snevelen, snyvelen, snuvelen, from Old English *snyflan (attested in the verbal noun snyflung (“mucus”)), from Proto-West Germanic *snuflijan, related to Old English snofl (“mucus”), ultimately from the root of snout. Akin to sniff, snuff. Compare sniffle. Cognate with Middle Low German snuffelen, snüffelen (“to sniff, smell”), Danish snøvle (“to sniffle, snivel”), Norwegian Nynorsk snuvla (“to sniffle, snivel”), Swedish snövla (“to sniffle, snivel”). Compare typologically Russian сопе́ть (sopétʹ), сопля́ (sopljá) akinness.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: подсмърчане (podsmǎrčane) — the act of snivelling
• Bulgarian: хлипане (hlipane) — the act of snivelling
• Bulgarian: хленчене (hlenčene) — the act of snivelling
• Czech: fňukání — the act of snivelling
• Czech: zafňukání — the act of snivelling
• Czech: popotahování — the act of snivelling
• Finnish: tuhina — the act of snivelling
• Finnish: nyyhke — the act of snivelling
• Finnish: nyyhkytys — the act of snivelling
• Latin: mūcēdō — the act of snivelling
• Norwegian: klynk — the act of snivelling
• Norwegian: snufs — the act of snivelling
• Norwegian: grining — the act of snivelling
• Norwegian: tuting — the act of snivelling
• Polish: łkanie — the act of snivelling
• Polish: chlipanie — the act of snivelling
• Polish: mazgajenie się — the act of snivelling
• Russian: хны́канье (xnýkanʹje) — the act of snivelling
• Russian: сопе́нье (sopénʹje) — the act of snivelling
• Russian: шмы́ганье (šmýganʹje) — the act of snivelling
• Swedish: snörvlande — the act of snivelling
• Swedish: snörvel — the act of snivelling
• Bashkir: маңҡа (mañqa) — nasal mucus; snot
• Bulgarian: сополи (sopoli) — nasal mucus; snot
• Czech: nudle u nosu — nasal mucus; snot
• Finnish: räkä — nasal mucus; snot
• French: morve — nasal mucus; snot
• Ancient Greek: κόρυζα (kóruza) — nasal mucus; snot
• Ancient Greek: μύξα (múxa) — nasal mucus; snot
• Hungarian: orrváladék; takony — nasal mucus; snot
• Norwegian: snørr — nasal mucus; snot
• Polish: gil — nasal mucus; snot
• Polish: glut — nasal mucus; snot
• Polish: smark — nasal mucus; snot
• Romanian: muci — nasal mucus; snot
• Russian: носова́я слизь (nosovája slizʹ) — nasal mucus; snot
• Russian: со́пли (sópli) — nasal mucus; snot
• Spanish: moco — nasal mucus; snot
• Swedish: snor — nasal mucus; snot
• Ottoman Turkish: سوموك (sümük) — nasal mucus; snot
• Bulgarian: подсмърчам (podsmǎrčam) — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Czech: popotahovat — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Czech: posmrkávat — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Finnish: tuhista — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Galician: fungar — to breathe heavily through the nose
• German: tief einatmen — to breathe heavily through the nose
• German: schniefen — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Norwegian: snufse — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Polish: pociągać nosem — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Portuguese: fungar — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Russian: сопе́ть (sopétʹ) — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Russian: шмы́гать (šmýgatʹ) — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Swedish: snörvla — to breathe heavily through the nose
• Bulgarian: хлипам (hlipam) — to cry while sniffling
• Polish: łkać — to cry while sniffling
• Polish: chlipać — to cry while sniffling
• Polish: mazgaić się — to cry while sniffling
• Bulgarian: хленча (hlenča) — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Czech: fňukat — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Czech: pofňukávat — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Finnish: nyyhkiä — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• French: pleurnicher — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• French: chialer colloquial — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: schniefen — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: schluchzen — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: flennen — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: pimmeln — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: pimpeln — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: winseln — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• German: heulen — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Norwegian: klynke — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Norwegian: bære seg — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Norwegian: snufse — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Norwegian: tute — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Polish: biadolić — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Russian: ныть (nytʹ) — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Russian: хны́кать (xnýkatʹ) — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Serbo-Croatian: цмиздрити — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Serbo-Croatian: cmizdriti — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Spanish: lloriquear — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Spanish: gimotear — to whine or complain, whilst crying
• Swedish: snörvla — to whine or complain, whilst crying