Snivel vs Howl - What's the difference?
snivel | howl |
To breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle.
To whine or complain, whilst crying.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As verbs the difference between snivel and howl
is that snivel is to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.As nouns the difference between snivel and howl
is that snivel is the act of snivelling while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.snivel
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Verb
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Synonyms
* sniffle * See alsoDerived terms
* sniveller * snivellingAnagrams
* * *howl
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision
