Snivelled vs Snavelled - What's the difference?

snivelled | snavelled |

As verbs the difference between snivelled and snavelled

is that snivelled is (snivel) while snavelled is (snavel).

snivelled

English

Verb

(head)

(snivel)

snivel

English

Verb

To breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle.

To whine or complain, whilst crying.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Synonyms

* sniffle * See also

Noun

(en noun)

the act of snivelling

nasal mucus; snot

Derived terms

* sniveller * snivelling

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snavelled

English

Verb

(head)

(snavel)

snavel

English

Verb

To steal, to pickpocket.

* 1902 , Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies , 2009, Sydney University Press, page 59,

Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag?s snavelled it!”

* 1996 , Lorene Ruymar, The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians , page 42,

Billy May said he made his first electric guitars after talking to an American named Paul Bigsley, who claimed to be the inventor of the Tremolo Lever, which idea, according to Billy, was “snavelled ” by Fender and improved upon.

(Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.

Paul tried to snavel Dan?s chair from under him.

* 1915 , New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 472,

This was in his constituency, and he believed the idea was to go straight through the reserve eventually — that if they snavelled' this piece now they would ' snavel more of this playground a little later on, and completely spoil the reserve.

* 1986 , Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me , page 26,

These primitive merchants lost the Booradeela Timber Reserve when it was snavelled up even before the Depression by the Kincomba Building Combine with a wheedled government contract.

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