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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-149/
- Published: 2024-12-27T17:15:29.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-27T17:15:28.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

snivel (verb, noun):

*verb*  
1: to run at the nose  
2: to snuff mucus up the nose audibly : snuffle  
3: to cry or whine with snuffling  
4: to speak or act in a whining, sniffling, tearful, or weakly emotional manner

*noun*  
1 *dialect* : head cold  
2: an act of sniveling

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snivel?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : There's never been anything pretty about sniveling. Snivel, which originally meant simply "to have a runny nose," has an Old English ancestor whose probable form was snyflan. Its lineage includes some other charming words of yore: an Old English word for mucus, snofl; the Middle Dutch word for a head cold, snof; the Old Norse word for snout, which is snoppa; and nan, a Greek verb meaning "to flow." Nowadays, we mostly use snivel as we have since the 1600s: when self-pitying whining is afoot, whether or not such sniveling is accompanied by unchecked nasal flow.

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