nonce-wd. [f. SNIVEL sb. or v.] A slight cold causing one to snivel; the domain of those who snivel.
1767. C’tess Cowper, in Mrs. Delany’s Life & Corr., Ser. II. I. 91. I caught the first cold I have had this year…; but it was only a ‘sniveldom’ and is gone off.
1892. Buffalo Enquirer, 21 Dec., 4/2. The high priest of hypocrisy, the chief sniveller of Sniveldom has gone down to the lowest levels [etc.].
