What's the difference between sniffle and snivel?

Sniffle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few sniffles and damp cheeks are endearing by comparison.
  • (2) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
  • (3) Though I'm not one to spend January in a hair shirt of self‑denial, I have to say that this week's liquid theme came as a bit of a relief – especially to a household struck down by seasonal sniffles.
  • (4) So if China gets the sniffles, then the rest of the world should probably keep the tissues handy.
  • (5) Trump lobbed in: “That makes me smart.” Trump's sniffles distract viewers at first presidential debate with Clinton Read more Had the class clown just admitted on live television, before a global audience of tens of millions, that he has not in fact paid income tax?
  • (6) Echinacea , a favourite herbal remedy for parents to give children with the sniffles, should not be given to the under-12s , said the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency last week.
  • (7) In over half the cases the infants had a cold, the sniffles, or other respiratory tract congestion within two weeks of the date of death, which seems to support the oft-quoted contention concerning the possibility of nasal obstruction which could initiate the fatal apnea.
  • (8) Trump’s repeated sniffling during the first two debates has also drawn attention, and Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, was forced to apologise for tweeting a suggestion that it could be due to cocaine use.
  • (9) They also recorded the severity of their clinical symptoms (runny nose, sniffles, sneezing, postnasal drip, cough and sore throat) on symptom cards.
  • (10) However, at the less illustrious end of the scale, this surely also means physicians dealing with pest-patients who won't accept that either there's nothing wrong with them or that there is no treatment available, except for their malady to run its course while they sniffle under a duvet in front of a Breaking Bad box set.
  • (11) Then, right at the end, like a long-suffering, frosty school principal, she decided to expel the ranting, sniffling, whining 70-year-old schoolboy who had not done his homework.
  • (12) They may indicate a sniffle in the relations between the two countries.
  • (13) Dr Mark Sonderup, the vice-chairman at the South African Medical Association, told the Mail & Guardian newspaper this week : "I'm not sure we should press the panic button every single time a man of his age has the sniffles.
  • (14) By the time the service was over their steps were inaudible amid the chorus of sobs and sniffles.
  • (15) Having always thought of cinema as a safe space, I was ready to cry about five minutes into Nancy Meyers’ The Intern , and then continued wailing and sniffling until the end credits rolled.
  • (16) Trump hit Clinton on trade and her political record – issues that have helped him draw level in recent polls and may yet dominate the election – but appeared thin-skinned and under-prepared as he sniffled his way through the debate.
  • (17) And the first lady, Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood, sleeping in a spare bedroom due to a “cold” that is suspiciously sniffle-free, has demanded from her husband a nomination as US ambassador to the United Nations.

Snivel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
  • (v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
  • (v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crisp, ball-by-ball update of scores, and none of this snivelling."
  • (2) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (3) True, a band shouldn't be judged by its name, but they sound like Fleetwood Mac (or, by their own admission, Jethro Tull); whereas with the Nipple Erectors, Slaughter & the Dogs or the Snivelling Shits, you tended to know what to expect.
  • (4) When discriminators are challenged they produce snivelling fudges and sideswipes.
  • (5) First the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk , and now the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, have betrayed both the reef and the trust of the Australian people by snivelling across the seas, pledging allegiance to the Carmichael coalmine.
  • (6) A 55-year-old man in Okagaki Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, pulled a nasal leech from his nostril in July 1987, after suffering from nosebleed, copious running snivels as well as unpleasant foreign body sensation in the nasal cavity.
  • (7) They snivel and lie and duck questions on torture - on torture, for Christ's sake - while demanding we respect their authority.
  • (8) It aims at being a despairing cry, but achieves only the stature of a self-pitying snivel."
  • (9) "Viktor Korchnoi is quite an exponent, saying (if I report it correctly) 'stop squirming in your chair you snivelling little worm' to Anatoly Karpov during their 1978 world championship match.

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