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Weep vs Snivel - What's the difference?

weep | snivel |

As verbs the difference between weep and snivel

is that weep is to cry; shed tears while snivel is to breathe heavily through the nose; to sniffle.

As nouns the difference between weep and snivel

is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while snivel is the act of snivelling.

weep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
    • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
    • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  • (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
  • * Prior
    • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.

    • 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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