snive

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

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).

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsniːʋə/

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• Rhymes: -iːʋə
• Hyphenation: sni‧ve

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

     had glanders in the hind legs

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

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