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Today's word is snivel.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snivel

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Verb

There's never been anything pretty about sniveling. Snivel, which originally meant simply "to have a runny nose," was probably snyflan in Old English. It's likely related to sniffle, not surprisingly, and also to an Old English word for mucus, snofl. It's even related to the Middle Dutch word for a cold, snof, and the Old Norse word for snout, which is snoppa. There's also a connection to nan, a Greek verb meaning "flow." Nowadays, we mostly use snivel, as we have since the 1600s, to refer to self-pitying whining, whether or not such sniveling is accompanied by unchecked nasal flow.

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Shut up, snivel britches

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Snivel was one of Cubone's moves in the original set of the Pokemon TCG.
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Mmmvery good, sir.



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