snivel

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snivel/ˈsnɪvl/

▶verb (snivels, snivelling, snivelled; US snivels, sniveling, sniveled)

• 1 cry and sniffle.

• 2 complain in a whining or tearful way.

▶noun a period of snivelling.

– derivatives
sniveller noun,
snivelling adjective,
snivellingly adverb.

– origin OE (recorded only in the verbal noun snyflung ‘mucus’), from snofl, in the same sense.