snive

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: snīv, IPA^(key): /snaɪv/
• (UK) enPR: snīv, IPA^(key): /snʌɪv/
• Rhymes: -aɪv, -ʌɪv

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne

Norwegian Bokmål

Mallein test for glanders on a horse, in 1919.

Etymology

From Danish snive (“glanders”), either from older/dialectal snive, snibe (“snore”), or from Middle Low German snīp (“throat disease in chickens”). The Danish term refers to the sound of the respiratory organs of animals with the disease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsniːʋə/

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• Rhymes: -iːʋə
• Hyphenation: sni‧ve

Noun

snive f or m (definite singular sniva or sniven, indefinite plural sniver, definite plural snivene)

1. (pathology) glanders (an infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans)
   • 1883, Jonas Lie, Familjen paa Gilje, page 72:

     [hesten] havde snive i bagbenene

     [the horse] had glanders in the hind legs

References

• “snive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “snive” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “snive” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• envis, Svein, svein, svien, svine, visen, visne