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Word Meanings - SNIVEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise. 2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.

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  • BABBLEMENT
    Babble. Hawthorne.
  • DRIVEL
    To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
  • SNIVELER
    One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.
  • FATUITY
    Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • NONSENSE
    1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
  • TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
    Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
  • BABBLER
    A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
  • TRIFLING
    Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
  • TRIFLER
    One who trifles. Waterland.
  • TRIFLUCTUATION
    A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
  • SNIVEL
    1. To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise. 2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.
  • BABBLE
    It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter;
  • BABBLERY
    Babble. Sir T. More
  • SNIVELY
    Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.
  • OUTBABBLE
    To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. Milton.
  • BIBBLE-BABBLE
    Idle talk; babble. Shak.

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