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(noun) pronounced with a hard 'i' sound

1. A person who is conniving, and manipulates situations or people for their own benefit. Selfish. (insult)

2. Friendly jab at mutilative, often crafty behavior which is self serving, selfish.

3. Someone who pleads, whines, begs for something, which they don't deserve.

Originated in Pueblo, CO skateboard culture in the late 80's when an overeducated medical student attempted to insult a young [skateboarder] by calling him a sniveler (soft 'i' sound), a college dictionary word meaning a whiner, complainer, i.e. the Zorlac skateboard motto of the time 'Shut up and Skate'. Instead, a new word was born out of the [manipulative] behavior that was going on at the same time, likely borrowing money in a whining voice, maybe related to the use here of sniveller. Sniveler expanded in meaning to [include] behavior such as people stealing tips off tables to pay for their coffee, and any behavior that was self serving, or selfish. While an inside joke, term with [skateboarders], it has since expanded coast to coast.

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