snotty

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Definition of snotty

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Running or dirtied with mucus.
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adj

  1. Running or dirtied with mucus.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.
    “Greasy hamburgers or snotty eggs? How about some of those fine pancakes that needed a steak knife to hack through?”
  3. (informal)Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
    “"None of your business," she said. She can be very snotty sometimes. She can be quite snotty. "I suppose you failed in every single subject again," she said—very snotty. It was sort of funny, too, in a way. She sounds like a goddam schoolteacher sometimes, and she's only a little child.”
    “The people there where mostly white, and mostly poor. There wasn't much of a middle class, except for a few well-educated folk trying hard not to be snotty so their kids wouldn't get beat up at school.”
    “Becky had been trying to move out of the society pages and into stories of more substance in recent months, a major shift for her. When I worked for the Herald, she was kind of a mincy, snotty little thing who dressed in heels and blouses […]”

noun

  1. (Australia, slang)The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.
  2. (slang)A midshipman.

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Etymology

From snot + -y.

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