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snive

UK/snaɪv/

snive is the alternative spelling of sny.

Meaning of sny

Verb (1)

sny (third-person singular simple present snies, present participle snying, simple past and past participle snied)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To move, proceed.

Verb (2)

sny (third-person singular simple present snies, present participle snying, simple past and past participle snied)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) Abound, swarm, teem, be infested, with something
    • “And did you kill it?”
      “I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ‛em.”1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

See all 5 meanings of sny

Forms of snive

third-person singular presentsnives
present participlesniving
past participlesnived
pastsnived

Words that rhyme with snive

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Questions about snive

What is snive the alternative spelling of?
Snive is the alternative spelling of sny.
How do you pronounce snive?
Snive is pronounced /snaɪv/ (UK).

Words near snive in the dictionary

  1. snitty
  2. snitz
  3. snitzed
  4. snitzes
  5. snitzing
  6. snive
  7. snivel
  8. snivel rights
  9. sniveled
  10. sniveler
  11. snivelers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snive (page history and authors); sny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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