snot
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6.3
- noun
- /snɑt/
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- After catching a cold, I noticed a lot of snot dripping from my nose.
- snot-nose
- snot and tears
- snot bubbles
And I'm sitting in a chair bawling my eyes out, just snot and just crying.
- And I'm sitting in a chair bawling my eyes out, just snot and just crying.
- I just think it's important not to get their snot all over the limo.
- What does it smell like in a cloud of whale snot?
Examples
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His face was filthy from crying and from rubbing snot over it.
Fiction book (2000) -
I sneeze, I have snot coming out of my nose.
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Kind of like a snot ball.
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You put snot on the ball?
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And a little bit of snot.
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What we're going to do here is use our nose to look at how much snot the average adult makes in a day.
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In her Sunday dress, all covered in snot and mud.
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Your nose begins to run, and you have to keep licking the snot away.
Fiction book (2000) -
Trace and I would be blowing black snot out of our noses for days.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tears spilled from her eyes onto the dough, and sweat and snot joined them.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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3.4
A thick, sticky liquid made in the nose, throat, and gut that protects and moistens them
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8.0
A small piece of dried mucus inside the nose
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6.0
A small dried piece of mucus inside the nose
1
9.9
A long runny nose with watery mucus often from a cold or allergies
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Etymology
Snot comes from an old Germanic word for the sticky stuff in the nose, and you can see similar words in German and Dutch like Schnodder or snot. So it names 'the sticky stuff in your nose' that often comes when you have a cold.