ˈsnivelled, ppl. a.
[f. snivel n. or v.]
Soiled or foul with snivel.
| 1530 Tindale Answ. More (Parker Soc.) 124 That men should shrine his snivelled napkin, and not to believe his preaching. 1576 R. Peterson Galateo (1852) 13 They spare not to snot their sniueld noses vppon them. 1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 43 He woulde through negligence suffer his nose alwaies to be sneueled, and tooke no care to wipe it. 1619 R. West Bk. Demeanor 46 in Babees Bk. 292 To wipe thy snivelled nose Vpon thy cap. 1738 tr. Guazzo's Art Convers. 78 He was so negligent, as always to go with a snivell'd nose. |