snivel

1. (intransitive) To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus.Examples: "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."; "[…] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes."Synonyms: sniffleintransitive

2. (derogatory, intransitive) To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.Examples: "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;"; "[…] 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 […]"; "I never snivel over trifles like that."Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bemoan, bitch, bleat, carp, chunter, complainderogatoryintransitive

3. (derogatory, transitive) To say (something) while sniffling or crying.Examples: "This bye dialogue prevented my hearing what passed between the prisoner and Captain Thornton, but I heard the former snivel out, in a very subdued tone, “And ye’ll ask her to gang nae farther than just to shew ye where the MacGregor is?—Ohon! ohon!”"; "I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn."; "‘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.’"derogatorytransitive