Usually means: Whine or cry with sniffles.
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  1. snivel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snivel: Merriam-Webster
  3. snivel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snivel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snivel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snivel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snivel, snivel: Wordnik
  8. snivel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snivel: Wiktionary
  10. snivel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snivel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snivel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snivel, the snivel: Dictionary.com
  14. snivel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Snivel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. snivel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. snivel: Rhymezone
  18. snivel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. snivel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. snivel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. snivel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. snivel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snivel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snivel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snivel: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snivel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sniveled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus.
verb:  (derogatory, intransitive) To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.
verb:  (derogatory, transitive) To say (something) while sniffling or crying.
noun:  The act of snivelling.
noun:  Nasal mucus; snot.

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