snivelledadj.
Soiled or foul with snivel.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with snivel
snivelled1531
snotty1545
snottish1648
snotty-nosed1682
snot-nosed1941
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lxxvjv That men shuld shrine his sneueled napken, and not to beleue his preachinge.
1576 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo (1852) 13 They spare not to snot their sniueld noses vppon them.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. f. 43 He woulde through negligence suffer his nose alwaies to be sneueled, and tooke no care to wipe it.
1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. A8v To wipe thy sniuelled nose Upon thy cap.
1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 78 He was so negligent, as always to go with a snivell'd nose.
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