词源

古英語 ，还有记载作 (“鼻涕，粘液”)^[1]，源自，最终源自的词根。

与、有关。^[2].

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈsnɪvəl/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• 韻部：-ɪvəl

动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (不及物) 吸鼻涕

   近義詞：

   • 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623,

     […] a Hagg, a Fury by my side;

     With hollow, yellow teeth (or none perhaps)

     With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps;

     With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes,

     With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.

   • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,

     […] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.

   • 1937, , 章號 9, 出自 , New York: Random House, 出版於 1982，頁號 187:

     […] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.

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2. (貶義，不及物) 啜泣，呜咽；哭哭啼啼，哭诉

   近義詞： 參見Thesaurus:complain

   • 1660, , “No Fool to the Old Fool”, 出自 A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions‎, London: Henry Brome，頁號 95:

     Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;

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   • 1748, , 章號 61, 出自 ‎, 卷 2, London: J. Osborn，頁號 267:

     […] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]

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   • 1868, , 章號 15, 出自 ‎:

     I never snivel over trifles like that.

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   • 1957, , ‎, New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1，頁號 17:

     ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
     BASTON: What a hard child you are.
     ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
     BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
     ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.

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3. (貶義，及物) 哭哭啼啼地说，哭诉说
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   • 1891, , 章號 9, 出自 ‎:

     I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn.

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   • 1934 十月, [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, 出自 , New York, N.Y.: , →OCLC:

     ‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’

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名词

(複數)

1. 吸鼻涕；呜咽；哭哭啼啼
   • 1692, , “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle”, 出自 Poems in Burlesque‎, London，頁號 2:

     So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel
     Made half his Congregation drivel,

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   • 1792, , 章號 5, 出自 Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe‎, 卷 1, London，頁號 50:

     […] after a bit of a snivel, for you know I am a woman in these matters, I had her treated with all decency, and then committed her to ; and for want of a chaplain, I said the burial service myself […]

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   • 1849 May – 1850 November, , 章號 42, 出自 , London: Bradbury & Evans, […], 出版於 1850, →OCLC:

     Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.

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2. 鼻涕
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   • 1653, （譯者）, The First Book of the Works of ‎, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53:

     He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]

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   • 1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,

     In streams the blood and snivel flows

     From many a Grecian’s snotty nose,

   • 1860, , 譯者 , The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell‎, London: John Murray，頁號 86:

     On quitting this den of furious heat, I got a sight of a lair, exceeding all the rest I had seen in Hell, but one, in frightful stinking filthiness, where was a herd of accursed drunken swine, disgorging and swallowing, swallowing and disgorging, continually and without rest, the most loathsome snivel.

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   • 1952, , 章號 3, 出自 ‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 出版於 1962，頁號 59:

     […] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.

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