ppl. a. [f. SNIVEL sb. or v.] Soiled or foul with snivel.
1530. Tindale, Answ. More (Parker Soc.), 124. That men should shrine his snivelled napkin, and not to believe his preaching.
1576. R. Peterson, Galateo (1852), 13. They spare not to snot their sniueld noses vppon them.
1581. G. Pettie, trans. Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., I. (1586), 43. He woulde through negligence suffer his nose alwaies to be sneueled, and tooke no care to wipe it.
1619. R. West, Bk. Demeanor, 46, in Babees Bk., 292. To wipe thy snivelled nose Vpon thy cap.
1738. trans. Guazzo’s Art Conversation, 78. He was so negligent, as always to go with a snivell’d nose.
