Meanings (ES + gloss)
moco
Nasal mucus; snot.
1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44, In streams the blood and snivel flows From many a Grecian’s snotty…
He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
gimotear • lloriquear
To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.
Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the P…
[…] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed m…
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